Elevation of South West Rocks, New South Wales, Australia

South West Rocks, New South Wales, Australia is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

South West Rocks's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 13 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 172 m

Mean 13 m across the 9.5 km square centred on the town, 172 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

263rd of 326

among the towns of New South Wales, and 843rd of 1,000 in Australia.

Nearest town

8.7 km to the NW, at 9 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through South West Rocks

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 South West Rocks; the vertical scale is the same on both.

57-3WE26.7 km
West to east: from 36 m at 13 km west to 0 m at 13 km east.
57-3NS26.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 3 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 56 km around South West Rocks, 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 South West Rocks

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Stuarts Point 8.7 kmNW 9 m (30 ft) −1 m
Scotts Head 15.9 kmN 9 m (30 ft) −1 m
Smithtown-Gladstone 16.8 kmSW 2 m (7 ft) −8 m
Macksville 22.9 kmNW 3 m (10 ft) −7 m
Frederickton 23 kmSW 5 m (16 ft) −5 m

Where South West Rocks is

Latitude -30.8851449, longitude 153.0409547. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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South West Rocks elevation: 10 m (33 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 South West Rocks'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 13 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.