Elevation of Karamea, West Coast, New Zealand

Karamea, West Coast, New Zealand is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Karamea's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 5 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 5 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 240 m

Mean 31 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 240 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 12

among the towns of West Coast, and 267th of 279 in New Zealand.

Cross-section through Karamea

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Karamea; the vertical scale is the same on both.

547-41WE25.2 km
West to east: from 0 m at 13 km west to 506 m at 13 km east.
547-41NS25.2 km
North to south: from 256 m at 13 km north to 50 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Karamea, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 53 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.

Where Karamea is

Latitude -41.247636, longitude 172.1114872. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Karamea elevation: 5 m (16 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 Karamea'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 5 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.