Elevation of Karitane, Otago, New Zealand

Karitane, Otago, New Zealand is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Karitane's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 300 m

Mean 39 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 300 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 24

among the towns of Otago, and 256th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

Waikouaiti

5 km to the N, at 18 m, 11 m higher.

Cross-section through Karitane

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 Karitane; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 170 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 210 m at 12 km north to 33 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 51 km around Karitane, 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 Karitane

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Waikouaiti	5 km	N	18 m (59 ft)	+11 m
Warrington	9.3 km	SW	23 m (75 ft)	+16 m
Waitati	13.7 km	SW	7 m (23 ft)	same
Palmerston	17.8 km	N	31 m (102 ft)	+24 m
Dunedin	29.2 km	SW	10 m (33 ft)	+3 m

Peaks and passes near Karitane

Mount Cargill, peak at 680 m (2,231 ft), 20.9 km to the SW — 673 m above the town.
Signal Hill, peak at 393 m (1,289 ft), 24.4 km to the S — 386 m above the town.

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

Where Karitane is

Latitude -45.6399394, longitude 170.6579844. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Karitane'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 9 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.