Elevation of Ross, West Coast, New Zealand

Ross, West Coast, New Zealand is 35 m (115 ft) above sea level.

Ross's height from sea level is 35 metres, or 115 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 716 m

Mean 132 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 716 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 12

among the towns of West Coast, and 150th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

23.5 km to the NE, at 7 m, 28 m lower.

Cross-section through Ross

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ross; the vertical scale is the same on both.

868-65WE24.9 km
West to east: from 0 m at 12 km west to 131 m at 12 km east.
868-65NS24.9 km
North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 683 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Ross, 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 Ross

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hokitika 23.5 kmNE 7 m (23 ft) −28 m
Harihari 35.2 kmSW 51 m (167 ft) +16 m

Peaks and passes near Ross

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Ross is

Latitude -42.8975558, longitude 170.8157655. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ross elevation: 35 m (115 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Ross'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 11 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.