Elevation of Ukkusissat, Uummannaq, Greenland

Ukkusissat, Uummannaq, Greenland is 141 m (463 ft) above sea level.

Ukkusissat's height from sea level is 141 metres, or 463 feet. GeoNames reads 257 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 488 m.

Ground within 3 km

0 m – 828 m

Mean 187 m across the 6.8 km square centred on the town, 828 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 9

among the towns of Uummannaq, and 22nd of 99 in Greenland.

Nearest town

24 km to the E, at 763 m, 622 m higher.

Cross-section through Ukkusissat

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 19 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ukkusissat; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,372-102WE19 km
West to east: from 0 m at 10 km west to 364 m at 10 km east.
1,372-102NS19 km
North to south: from 932 m at 10 km north to 1,270 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 40 km around Ukkusissat, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 40 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 Ukkusissat

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Maarmorilik 24 kmE 763 m (2,503 ft) +622 m
Saattut 28.2 kmS 0 m (0 ft) −141 m

Where Ukkusissat is

Latitude 71.056877, longitude -51.897018. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ukkusissat elevation: 141 m (463 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 Ukkusissat'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 257 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.