Elevation of Bakkafjörður, Norðurland eystra, Iceland

Bakkafjörður, Norðurland eystra, Iceland is 0 m (0 ft) above sea level.

Bakkafjörður's height from sea level is 0 metres, or 0 feet. GeoNames reads 23 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 262 m

Mean 42 m across the 7.2 km square centred on the town, 262 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 20

among the towns of Norðurland eystra, and 93rd of 104 in Iceland.

Nearest town

30 km to the NW, at 15 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through Bakkafjörður

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 20.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bakkafjörður; the vertical scale is the same on both.

293-22WE20.2 km
West to east: from 0 m at 10 km west to 0 m at 10 km east.
293-22NS20.2 km
North to south: from 0 m at 10 km north to 271 m at 10 km south.
Shaded relief of the 42 km around Bakkafjörður, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 42 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 Bakkafjörður

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Þórshöfn 30 kmNW 15 m (49 ft) +15 m
Vopnafjörður (Austurland) 31.2 kmS 28 m (92 ft) +28 m

Where Bakkafjörður is

Latitude 66.0349921, longitude -14.8057022. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bakkafjörður elevation: 0 m (0 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Bakkafjörður'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 23 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.