Elevation of Atherton, Queensland, Australia

Atherton, Queensland, Australia is 784 m (2,572 ft) above sea level.

Atherton's height from sea level is 784 metres, or 2,572 feet. GeoNames reads 765 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 765 m.

Ground within 5 km

713 m – 1,158 m

Mean 809 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 445 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 218

among the towns of Queensland, and 25th of 1,000 in Australia.

Nearest town

Tolga

4.9 km to the N, at 754 m, 30 m lower.

Cross-section through Atherton

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Atherton; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 988 m at 14 km west to 693 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 600 m at 14 km north to 841 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Atherton, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Atherton

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tolga	4.9 km	N	754 m (2,474 ft)	−30 m
Yungaburra	11.4 km	E	694 m (2,277 ft)	−90 m
Herberton	15.4 km	SW	920 m (3,018 ft)	+136 m
Malanda	15.6 km	SE	743 m (2,438 ft)	−41 m
Mareeba	31.2 km	N	402 m (1,319 ft)	−382 m

Where Atherton is

Latitude -17.2668147, longitude 145.4760787. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Atherton's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 765 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.