Elevation of Vaimalau, Mua, Wallis and Futuna

Vaimalau, Mua, Wallis and Futuna is 13 m (43 ft) above sea level.

Vaimalau's height from sea level is 13 metres, or 43 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Vaimiatau.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 113 m

Mean 16 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 113 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 9

among the towns of Mua, and 19th of 35 in Wallis and Futuna.

Nearest town

3 km to the N, at 15 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Vaimalau

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vaimalau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

56-4WE28.4 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
56-4NS28.4 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Vaimalau, 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 Vaimalau

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ahoa (Hahake) 3 kmN 15 m (49 ft) +2 m
Halalo 4.3 kmSE 1 m (3 ft) −12 m
Kolopopo 4.7 kmSE 11 m (36 ft) −2 m
Teesi 4.8 kmSE 11 m (36 ft) −2 m
Haatofo 5.5 kmE 21 m (69 ft) +8 m

Where Vaimalau is

Latitude -13.3129971, longitude -176.2406194. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vaimalau elevation: 13 m (43 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 Vaimalau'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 13 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.