Elevation of Isortoq, Ammassalik, Greenland

Isortoq, Ammassalik, Greenland is 38 m (125 ft) above sea level.

Isortoq's height from sea level is 38 metres, or 125 feet. GeoNames reads 1 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 13 m.

Also written: Isertoq.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 49 m

Mean 20 m across the 7.2 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 8

among the towns of Ammassalik, and 45th of 99 in Greenland.

Cross-section through Isortoq

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 20.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Isortoq; the vertical scale is the same on both.

321-24WE20.3 km
West to east: from 0 m at 10 km west to 37 m at 10 km east.
321-24NS20.3 km
North to south: from 297 m at 10 km north to 0 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 43 km around Isortoq, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 43 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.

Where Isortoq is

Latitude 65.53, longitude -38.97. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Isortoq elevation: 38 m (125 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 Isortoq'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 1 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.