Elevation of Sandur, Vága, Faroe Islands
Sandur, Vága, Faroe Islands is 226 m (741 ft) above sea level.
Sandur's height from sea level is 226 metres, or 741 feet. GeoNames reads 113 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 104 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 409 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Sandur
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Sandur; 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 Sandur
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skarvanes (Sandoy) | 1.7 km | NE | 278 m (912 ft) | +52 m |
| Skopun (Sandoy) | 1.7 km | NE | 278 m (912 ft) | +52 m |
| Skálavík (Sandoy) | 7 km | E | 96 m (315 ft) | −130 m |
| Húsavík (Sandoy) | 7.7 km | SE | 174 m (571 ft) | −52 m |
| Skúvoy (Sandoy) | 8.4 km | S | 211 m (692 ft) | −15 m |
Peaks and passes near Sandur
- Tungulfjall, peak at 532 m (1,745 ft), 22 km to the N — 306 m above the town.
- Knúkur, peak at 393 m (1,289 ft), 8.9 km to the S — 167 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Sandur is
Latitude 61.843811, longitude -6.805113. 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 Sandur'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 113 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.