(C.1804â38), leader of the Seminole Indians; born Billy Powell. Resisting all government efforts to remove his people from their homeland in Florida, he led them in the Seminole Wars, which began in 1835.
Open Google Earth and navigate to the location you want either manually by zooming in, or by searching for a location. If you searched for a location the elevation of the specific point displays at the bottom right of the window.
For other uses, see Elevation (disambiguation) . Elevation histogram of the surface of the Earth â approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. A sign at 8000 feet (2438 meters) in the San Bernardino Mountains. The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic system, vertical datum).