Elevation of Hvalvík, Streymoy, Faroe Islands

Hvalvík, Streymoy, Faroe Islands is 34 m (112 ft) above sea level.

Hvalvík's height from sea level is 34 metres, or 112 feet. GeoNames reads 170 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 615 m

Mean 215 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 615 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 16

among the towns of Streymoy, and 70th of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

Streymnes

1.3 km to the NW, at 277 m, 243 m higher.

Cross-section through Hvalvík

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 Hvalvík; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 539 m at 11 km west to 496 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 365 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 44 km around Hvalvík, 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 Hvalvík

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Streymnes	1.3 km	NW	277 m (909 ft)	+243 m
Oyri (Norðara Eysturoy)	2.3 km	E	22 m (72 ft)	−12 m
Nesvík	2.6 km	N	42 m (138 ft)	+8 m
Oyrabakki (Norðara Eysturoy)	2.8 km	N	43 m (141 ft)	+9 m
Norðskáli (Norðara Eysturoy)	4.1 km	N	65 m (213 ft)	+31 m

Peaks and passes near Hvalvík

Slættaratindur, peak at 882 m (2,894 ft), 12.3 km to the N — 848 m above the town.
Gráfelli, peak at 856 m (2,808 ft), 14 km to the N — 822 m above the town.
Sornfelli, peak at 749 m (2,457 ft), 13.3 km to the S — 715 m above the town.
Eiðisskarð, pass at 392 m (1,286 ft), 11.3 km to the N.

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

Where Hvalvík is

Latitude 62.1844365, longitude -7.0132523. 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 Hvalvík'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 170 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.