Elevation of Blackball, West Coast, New Zealand

Blackball, West Coast, New Zealand is 113 m (371 ft) above sea level.

Blackball's height from sea level is 113 metres, or 371 feet. GeoNames reads 89 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

27 m – 917 m

Mean 214 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 890 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 12

among the towns of West Coast, and 81st of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

12.4 km to the SW, at 28 m, 85 m lower.

Cross-section through Blackball

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Blackball; the vertical scale is the same on both.

978-44WE25 km
West to east: from 387 m at 13 km west to 121 m at 13 km east.
978-44NS25 km
North to south: from 772 m at 13 km north to 105 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Blackball, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 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 Blackball

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dobson 12.4 kmSW 28 m (92 ft) −85 m
Greymouth 19 kmSW 45 m (148 ft) −68 m

Where Blackball is

Latitude -42.3655184, longitude 171.4119235. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Blackball elevation: 113 m (371 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 Blackball'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 89 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.