Elevation of Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands is 52 m (171 ft) above sea level.
Road Town's height from sea level is 52 metres, or 171 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 54 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 406 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Road Town
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Road Town; 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 Road Town
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cruz Bay (Virgin Islands of the United States) | 15.1 km | SW | 309 m (1,014 ft) | +257 m |
| Anna's Retreat (Virgin Islands of the United States) | 29.6 km | W | 93 m (305 ft) | +41 m |
| Charlotte Amalie East (Virgin Islands of the United States) | 32.5 km | W | 60 m (197 ft) | +8 m |
| Charlotte Amalie (Virgin Islands of the United States) | 34 km | W | 62 m (203 ft) | +10 m |
| Charlotte Amalie West (Virgin Islands of the United States) | 37.3 km | W | 0 m (0 ft) | −52 m |
Peaks and passes near Road Town
- Mount Sage, peak at 523 m (1,716 ft), 4.8 km to the SW — 471 m above the town.
- Bordeaux Mountain, peak at 377 m (1,237 ft), 15.4 km to the SW — 325 m above the town.
- Bordeaux North Hill, peak at 363 m (1,191 ft), 14.5 km to the SW — 311 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Road Town is
Latitude 18.426997, longitude -64.620762. 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 Road Town'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.