Elevation of Mataiea, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia

Mataiea, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia is 6 m (20 ft) above sea level.

Mataiea's height from sea level is 6 metres, or 20 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 508 m

Mean 101 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 508 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 28

among the towns of Îles du Vent, and 66th of 116 in French Polynesia.

Nearest town

Papeari

6.8 km to the E, at 29 m, 23 m higher.

Cross-section through Mataiea

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mataiea; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 236 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 844 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Mataiea, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Mataiea

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Papeari	6.8 km	E	29 m (95 ft)	+23 m
Papara	10.3 km	W	45 m (148 ft)	+39 m
Toahotu	10.4 km	E	51 m (167 ft)	+45 m
Afaahiti	11.5 km	NE	63 m (207 ft)	+57 m
Vairao	13 km	E	5 m (16 ft)	−1 m

Peaks and passes near Mataiea

Mont Orohena, peak at 2,241 m (7,352 ft), 18.2 km to the NW — 2,235 m above the town.

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

Where Mataiea is

Latitude -17.7675898, longitude -149.4116554. 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 Mataiea'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 9 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.