Elevation of Lake Tekapo, Canterbury, New Zealand
Lake Tekapo, Canterbury, New Zealand is 719 m (2,359 ft) above sea level.
Lake Tekapo's height from sea level is 719 metres, or 2,359 feet. GeoNames reads 710 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 744 m across the 8.8 km square centred on the town, 285 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Lake Tekapo
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lake Tekapo; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Lake Tekapo
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairlie | 30 km | E | 311 m (1,020 ft) | −408 m |
Peaks and passes near Lake Tekapo
- Dobson Peak, hill at 2,095 m (6,873 ft), 16.9 km to the NE — 1,376 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Lake Tekapo is
Latitude -44.0050746, longitude 170.4774617. 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 Lake Tekapo'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 710 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.