Elevation of Qaarsut, Uummannaq, Greenland

Qaarsut, Uummannaq, Greenland is 72 m (236 ft) above sea level.

Qaarsut's height from sea level is 72 metres, or 236 feet. GeoNames reads 76 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Qaersut.

Ground within 3 km

0 m – 979 m

Mean 249 m across the 6.8 km square centred on the town, 979 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 9

among the towns of Uummannaq, and 31st of 99 in Greenland.

Nearest town

22.1 km to the E, at 0 m, 72 m lower.

Cross-section through Qaarsut

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 19.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Qaarsut; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,787-133WE19.1 km
West to east: from 581 m at 10 km west to 0 m at 10 km east.
1,787-133NS19.1 km
North to south: from 0 m at 10 km north to 1,209 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 40 km around Qaarsut, 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 Qaarsut

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Uummannaq 22.1 kmE 0 m (0 ft) −72 m
Niaqornat 35.7 kmW 159 m (522 ft) +87 m

Where Qaarsut is

Latitude 70.7336882, longitude -52.6948704. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Qaarsut elevation: 72 m (236 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 Qaarsut'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 76 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.