Elevation of Saksun, Streymoy, Faroe Islands
Saksun, Streymoy, Faroe Islands is 410 m (1,345 ft) above sea level.
Saksun's height from sea level is 410 metres, or 1,345 feet. GeoNames reads 197 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 360 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 622 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Saksun
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 Saksun; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Saksun
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haldarsvík | 5 km | NE | 16 m (52 ft) | −394 m |
| Tjørnuvík | 5.1 km | N | 46 m (151 ft) | −364 m |
| Ljósá (Norðara Eysturoy) | 5.8 km | NE | 77 m (253 ft) | −333 m |
| Eiði (Norðara Eysturoy) | 7.1 km | NE | 28 m (92 ft) | −382 m |
| Svínáir (Norðara Eysturoy) | 7.5 km | E | 104 m (341 ft) | −306 m |
Peaks and passes near Saksun
- Slættaratindur, peak at 882 m (2,894 ft), 8.9 km to the NE — 472 m above the town.
- Gráfelli, peak at 856 m (2,808 ft), 11 km to the NE — 446 m above the town.
- Sornfelli, peak at 749 m (2,457 ft), 22.4 km to the SE — 339 m above the town.
- Eiðisskarð, pass at 392 m (1,286 ft), 9.2 km to the NE.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Saksun is
Latitude 62.245299, longitude -7.164652. 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 Saksun'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 197 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.