Elevation of Illorsuit, Uummannaq, Greenland

Illorsuit, Uummannaq, Greenland is 416 m (1,365 ft) above sea level.

Illorsuit's height from sea level is 416 metres, or 1,365 feet. GeoNames reads 551 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Ground within 3 km

0 m – 912 m

Mean 328 m across the 6.7 km square centred on the town, 912 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 9

among the towns of Uummannaq, and 4th of 99 in Greenland.

Nearest town

37 km to the N, at 0 m, 416 m lower.

Cross-section through Illorsuit

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

927-69WE19 km
West to east: from 644 m at 10 km west to 0 m at 10 km east.
927-69NS19 km
North to south: from 0 m at 10 km north to 582 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 40 km around Illorsuit, 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 Illorsuit

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Nuugaatsiaq 37 kmN 0 m (0 ft) −416 m

Where Illorsuit is

Latitude 71.23, longitude -53.56. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Illorsuit elevation: 416 m (1,365 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 Illorsuit'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 551 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.