Elevation of Riversdale, Southland, New Zealand

Riversdale, Southland, New Zealand is 128 m (420 ft) above sea level.

Riversdale's height from sea level is 128 metres, or 420 feet. GeoNames reads 127 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Riversdale Community.

Ground within 4 km

112 m – 165 m

Mean 133 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 53 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 17

among the towns of Southland, and 75th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

27.1 km to the SE, at 75 m, 53 m lower.

Cross-section through Riversdale

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Riversdale; the vertical scale is the same on both.

325102WE24.4 km
West to east: from 154 m at 12 km west to 159 m at 12 km east.
325102NS24.4 km
North to south: from 183 m at 12 km north to 194 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Riversdale, 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 Riversdale

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gore 27.1 kmSE 75 m (246 ft) −53 m
Lumsden 29.4 kmNW 202 m (663 ft) +74 m

Where Riversdale is

Latitude -45.9009651, longitude 168.7420162. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Riversdale elevation: 128 m (420 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 Riversdale'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 127 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.