Elevation of Narsarsuaq, Narsaq, Greenland

Narsarsuaq, Narsaq, Greenland is 161 m (528 ft) above sea level.

Narsarsuaq's height from sea level is 161 metres, or 528 feet. GeoNames reads 48 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 34 m.

Also written: Narssarssuaq.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 695 m

Mean 177 m across the 7.6 km square centred on the town, 695 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 6

among the towns of Narsaq, and 19th of 99 in Greenland.

Nearest town

4.9 km to the W, at 31 m, 130 m lower.

Cross-section through Narsarsuaq

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 21.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Narsarsuaq; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,110-83WE21.3 km
West to east: from 190 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
1,110-83NS21.3 km
North to south: from 1,021 m at 11 km north to 104 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 45 km around Narsarsuaq, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 45 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 Narsarsuaq

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Qassiarsuk 4.9 kmW 31 m (102 ft) −130 m
Igaliku 17.7 kmS 17 m (56 ft) −144 m
Iterlak 27.1 kmS 99 m (325 ft) −62 m

Where Narsarsuaq is

Latitude 61.15588, longitude -45.419418. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Narsarsuaq elevation: 161 m (528 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 Narsarsuaq'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 48 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.