Elevation of Straume, Nordland, Norway

Straume, Nordland, Norway is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Straume's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 7 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 520 m

Mean 88 m across the 7 km square centred on the town, 520 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

62nd of 75

among the towns of Nordland, and 856th of 921 in Norway.

Nearest town

7.7 km to the S, at 14 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Straume

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 19.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Straume; the vertical scale is the same on both.

470-35WE19.6 km
West to east: from 0 m at 10 km west to 30 m at 10 km east.
470-35NS19.6 km
North to south: from 0 m at 10 km north to 0 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 41 km around Straume, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 41 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 Straume

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bø 7.7 kmS 14 m (46 ft) +9 m
Sandnes 20.6 kmSE 21 m (69 ft) +16 m
Stokmarknes 22.4 kmSE 6 m (20 ft) +1 m
Melbu 25.1 kmSE 13 m (43 ft) +8 m
Myre 34.9 kmNE 10 m (33 ft) +5 m

Peaks and passes near Straume

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

Where Straume is

Latitude 68.6887975, longitude 14.4726644. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Straume 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 Straume'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 12 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.