Elevation of Gouulu, Malaita, Solomon Islands

Gouulu, Malaita, Solomon Islands is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Gouulu's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 59 m

Mean 6 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 59 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 7

among the towns of Malaita, and 26th of 35 in Solomon Islands.

Nearest town

4.1 km to the E, at 20 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Gouulu

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gouulu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

744-56WE28.6 km
West to east: from 1 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
744-56NS28.6 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 688 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Gouulu, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Gouulu

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Uruuru 4.1 kmE 20 m (66 ft) +4 m
Maluu 8.3 kmSW 54 m (177 ft) +38 m
Ferafalu 10.7 kmE 38 m (125 ft) +22 m

Where Gouulu is

Latitude -8.3221346, longitude 160.7004914. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gouulu elevation: 16 m (52 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 Gouulu'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 8 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.