Elevation of Shoalhaven Heads, New South Wales, Australia

Shoalhaven Heads, New South Wales, Australia is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Shoalhaven Heads's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 9 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 154 m

Mean 10 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 154 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

305th of 326

among the towns of New South Wales, and 941st of 1,000 in Australia.

Nearest town

Greenwell Point

6.4 km to the S, at 6 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Shoalhaven Heads

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Shoalhaven Heads; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 3 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 213 m at 13 km north to 25 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Shoalhaven Heads, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 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 Shoalhaven Heads

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Greenwell Point	6.4 km	S	6 m (20 ft)	+1 m
Culburra-Orient Point	6.7 km	S	9 m (30 ft)	+4 m
Berry	9.6 km	NW	12 m (39 ft)	+7 m
Shoalhaven	13.2 km	W	9 m (30 ft)	+4 m
Gerringong	13.9 km	NE	36 m (118 ft)	+31 m

Peaks and passes near Shoalhaven Heads

Saddleback Mountain, peak at 600 m (1,969 ft), 17.5 km to the N — 595 m above the town.
Mount Coolangatta, peak at 300 m (984 ft), 2.5 km to the W — 295 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Shoalhaven Heads is

Latitude -34.8510469, longitude 150.744804. 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 Shoalhaven Heads'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 9 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.