Elevation of Riverton, Southland, New Zealand

Riverton, Southland, New Zealand is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

Riverton's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 7 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 148 m

Mean 13 m across the 8.6 km square centred on the town, 148 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 17

among the towns of Southland, and 263rd of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Wallacetown

21.2 km to the E, at 14 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Riverton

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 Riverton; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 44 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Riverton, 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 Riverton

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Wallacetown	21.2 km	E	14 m (46 ft)	+8 m
Invercargill	26.3 km	E	8 m (26 ft)	+2 m
Otautau	27 km	N	55 m (180 ft)	+49 m
Winton	34 km	NE	52 m (171 ft)	+46 m
Tuatapere	35.8 km	NW	29 m (95 ft)	+23 m

Where Riverton is

Latitude -46.3638811, longitude 168.0181945. 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 Riverton'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 7 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.