Elevation of Leynar, Streymoy, Faroe Islands

Leynar, Streymoy, Faroe Islands is 137 m (449 ft) above sea level.

Leynar's height from sea level is 137 metres, or 449 feet. GeoNames reads 1 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 615 m

Mean 223 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 615 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 16

among the towns of Streymoy, and 37th of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

0.7 km to the W, at 243 m, 106 m higher.

Cross-section through Leynar

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 Leynar; the vertical scale is the same on both.

524-39WE21.1 km
West to east: from 24 m at 11 km west to 295 m at 11 km east.
524-39NS21.1 km
North to south: from 164 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Leynar, 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 Leynar

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Stykkið 0.7 kmW 243 m (797 ft) +106 m
Kvívík 1.1 kmNW 243 m (797 ft) +106 m
Oyrareingir (Tórshavn) 4.2 kmE 292 m (958 ft) +155 m
Signabøur (Tórshavn) 6 kmE 211 m (692 ft) +74 m
Hósvík 6.2 kmNE 43 m (141 ft) −94 m

Peaks and passes near Leynar

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

Where Leynar is

Latitude 62.1168347, longitude -7.0392307. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Leynar elevation: 137 m (449 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 Leynar'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 1 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.