Elevation of Rituvík, Syðra Eysturoy, Faroe Islands

Rituvík, Syðra Eysturoy, Faroe Islands is 220 m (722 ft) above sea level.

Rituvík's height from sea level is 220 metres, or 722 feet. GeoNames reads 36 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 453 m

Mean 106 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 453 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 26

among the towns of Syðra Eysturoy, and 23rd of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

2 km to the NW, at 137 m, 83 m lower.

Cross-section through Rituvík

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 Rituvík; the vertical scale is the same on both.

549-41WE21.1 km
West to east: from 67 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
549-41NS21.1 km
North to south: from 316 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Rituvík, 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 Rituvík

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Saltangará 2 kmNW 137 m (449 ft) −83 m
Runavík 2 kmW 33 m (108 ft) −187 m
Saltnes 2.7 kmW 11 m (36 ft) −209 m
Glyvrar 3.3 kmNW 128 m (420 ft) −92 m
Toftir 3.6 kmSW 21 m (69 ft) −199 m

Peaks and passes near Rituvík

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

Where Rituvík is

Latitude 62.1091667, longitude -6.6822222. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rituvík elevation: 220 m (722 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 Rituvík'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 36 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.