Elevation of Scotts Head, New South Wales, Australia

Scotts Head, New South Wales, Australia is 9 m (30 ft) above sea level.

Scotts Head's height from sea level is 9 metres, or 30 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 176 m

Mean 20 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 176 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

270th of 326

among the towns of New South Wales, and 862nd of 1,000 in Australia.

Nearest town

8.1 km to the S, at 9 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Scotts Head

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Scotts Head; the vertical scale is the same on both.

92-7WE26.7 km
West to east: from 43 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
92-7NS26.7 km
North to south: from 26 m at 13 km north to 1 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around Scotts Head, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 56 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 Scotts Head

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Stuarts Point 8.1 kmS 9 m (30 ft) same
Macksville 8.3 kmNW 3 m (10 ft) −6 m
Nambucca Heads 11.8 kmN 12 m (39 ft) +3 m
South West Rocks 15.9 kmS 10 m (33 ft) +1 m
Valla Beach 17.3 kmN 26 m (85 ft) +17 m

Where Scotts Head is

Latitude -30.7479508, longitude 152.9929026. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Scotts Head elevation: 9 m (30 ft) above sea level

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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 Scotts Head'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 14 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.