Elevation of Otautau, Southland, New Zealand

Otautau, Southland, New Zealand is 55 m (180 ft) above sea level.

Otautau's height from sea level is 55 metres, or 180 feet. Wikidata records 60 m.

Ground within 4 km

42 m – 346 m

Mean 76 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 304 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 17

among the towns of Southland, and 126th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Night Caps

17.2 km to the N, at 166 m, 111 m higher.

Cross-section through Otautau

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Otautau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 460 m at 12 km west to 66 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 199 m at 12 km north to 26 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Otautau, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 51 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 Otautau

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Night Caps	17.2 km	N	166 m (545 ft)	+111 m
Ohai	21.2 km	N	196 m (643 ft)	+141 m
Tuatapere	23.3 km	W	29 m (95 ft)	−26 m
Winton	25.9 km	E	52 m (171 ft)	−3 m
Riverton	27 km	S	6 m (20 ft)	−49 m

Where Otautau is

Latitude -46.1221759, longitude 167.9910051. 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 Otautau'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.