Elevation of Tjørnuvík, Streymoy, Faroe Islands

Tjørnuvík, Streymoy, Faroe Islands is 46 m (151 ft) above sea level.

Tjørnuvík's height from sea level is 46 metres, or 151 feet. GeoNames reads 246 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 634 m

Mean 202 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 634 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 16

among the towns of Streymoy, and 60th of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the E, at 28 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Tjørnuvík

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tjørnuvík; the vertical scale is the same on both.

627-47WE21.1 km
West to east: from 0 m at 11 km west to 580 m at 11 km east.
627-47NS21.1 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 250 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Tjørnuvík, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 44 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 Tjørnuvík

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Eiði (Norðara Eysturoy) 3.1 kmE 28 m (92 ft) −18 m
Haldarsvík 3.3 kmSE 16 m (52 ft) −30 m
Saksun 5.1 kmS 410 m (1,345 ft) +364 m
Ljósá (Norðara Eysturoy) 5.1 kmSE 77 m (253 ft) +31 m
Svínáir (Norðara Eysturoy) 9.3 kmSE 104 m (341 ft) +58 m

Peaks and passes near Tjørnuvík

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

Where Tjørnuvík is

Latitude 62.29, longitude -7.1472222. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tjørnuvík elevation: 46 m (151 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 Tjørnuvík'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 246 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.