Elevation of Viðareiði, Norðoy, Faroe Islands

Viðareiði, Norðoy, Faroe Islands is 176 m (577 ft) above sea level.

Viðareiði's height from sea level is 176 metres, or 577 feet. GeoNames reads 123 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Viðareiðis.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 655 m

Mean 106 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 655 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 10

among the towns of Norðoy, and 32nd of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

2.1 km to the SW, at 0 m, 176 m lower.

Cross-section through Viðareiði

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Viðareiði; the vertical scale is the same on both.

628-47WE21 km
West to east: from 0 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
628-47NS21 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 246 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Viðareiði, 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 Viðareiði

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Múli (Klaksvík) 2.1 kmSW 0 m (0 ft) −176 m
Haraldsund 10.6 kmS 36 m (118 ft) −140 m
Kunoy 11.3 kmSW 1 m (3 ft) −175 m
Kirkja 11.3 kmE 195 m (640 ft) +19 m
Mikladalur 12.3 kmW 249 m (817 ft) +73 m

Peaks and passes near Viðareiði

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

Where Viðareiði is

Latitude 62.3603219, longitude -6.5349877. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Viðareiði elevation: 176 m (577 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 Viðareiði'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 123 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.