Elevation of Papetoai, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia

Papetoai, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia is 39 m (128 ft) above sea level.

Papetoai's height from sea level is 39 metres, or 128 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 18 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 486 m

Mean 91 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 486 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 28

among the towns of Îles du Vent, and 43rd of 116 in French Polynesia.

Nearest town

5.3 km to the E, at 32 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Papetoai

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 Papetoai; the vertical scale is the same on both.

535-40WE28.1 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
535-40NS28.1 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Papetoai, 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 Papetoai

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Paopao 5.3 kmE 32 m (105 ft) −7 m
Haapiti 7.9 kmS 9 m (30 ft) −30 m
Afareaitu 10.5 kmSE 77 m (253 ft) +38 m
Teavaro 11.1 kmE 81 m (266 ft) +42 m
Faaa 29.8 kmE 44 m (144 ft) +5 m

Where Papetoai is

Latitude -17.49332, longitude -149.872299. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Papetoai elevation: 39 m (128 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 Papetoai'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 14 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.