Elevation of Fámjin, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands

Fámjin, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands is 37 m (121 ft) above sea level.

Fámjin's height from sea level is 37 metres, or 121 feet. GeoNames reads 104 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 502 m

Mean 183 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 502 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 15

among the towns of Suðuroy, and 67th of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

3.6 km to the E, at 74 m, 37 m higher.

Cross-section through Fámjin

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Fámjin; the vertical scale is the same on both.

508-38WE21.2 km
West to east: from 0 m at 11 km west to 33 m at 11 km east.
508-38NS21.2 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 45 km around Fámjin, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 45 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 Fámjin

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Øravík 3.6 kmE 74 m (243 ft) +37 m
Øravíkarlíð 4.1 kmNE 4 m (13 ft) −33 m
Trongisvágur 4.9 kmN 155 m (509 ft) +118 m
Tvøroyri 5.4 kmNE 210 m (689 ft) +173 m
Vágur 6 kmSE 408 m (1,339 ft) +371 m

Peaks and passes near Fámjin

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

Where Fámjin is

Latitude 61.5230662, longitude -6.8783115. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Fámjin elevation: 37 m (121 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 Fámjin'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 104 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.