Elevation of Streymnes, Streymoy, Faroe Islands

Streymnes, Streymoy, Faroe Islands is 277 m (909 ft) above sea level.

Streymnes's height from sea level is 277 metres, or 909 feet. GeoNames reads 170 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 615 m

Mean 216 m across the 7.5 km square centred on the town, 615 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 16

among the towns of Streymoy, and 17th of 100 in Faroe Islands.

Nearest town

1.3 km to the SE, at 34 m, 243 m lower.

Cross-section through Streymnes

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 Streymnes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

572-43WE21.1 km
West to east: from 479 m at 11 km west to 464 m at 11 km east.
572-43NS21.1 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 0 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 44 km around Streymnes, 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 Streymnes

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hvalvík 1.3 kmSE 34 m (112 ft) −243 m
Nesvík 2.1 kmNE 42 m (138 ft) −235 m
Oyrabakki (Norðara Eysturoy) 2.6 kmNE 43 m (141 ft) −234 m
Norðskáli (Norðara Eysturoy) 3.4 kmN 65 m (213 ft) −212 m
Oyri (Norðara Eysturoy) 3.5 kmE 22 m (72 ft) −255 m

Peaks and passes near Streymnes

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

Where Streymnes is

Latitude 62.1918974, longitude -7.0331146. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Streymnes elevation: 277 m (909 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 Streymnes'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.