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Mount Cargill

676 m2,218 ft
Prominence
308 m1,010 ft
Isolation
5.0 km
Tonight
7°CLight rain showers · Wind 22 km/h NW

Mount Cargill is a 676 m (2,218 ft) mountain in Otago Region, New Zealand.

All facts
Elevation
676 m · 2,218 ft
Nearest higher peak
Maungatua (895 m)
Region
Otago Region, New Zealand
Coordinates
45.8132° S, 170.5537° E
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3D map

Mount Cargill 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Mount Cargill terrain and contours

25 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 125 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Cargill elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Cargill weather

Today · Light rain showers at night · 7 / 14°C (45 / 57°F) · 1.9 mm · Wind 22 km/h NW

Mount Cargill forecast for the summit, about 676 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 0 m.

  • Today7°14°1.9 mm22 km/h NWBase 11 / 19°
  • Sun8°17°2.4 mm34 km/h NWBase 12 / 21°
  • Mon2°19°7.3 mm54 km/h SWBase 6 / 23°
  • Tue0°6°1.0 mm27 km/h SWBase 4 / 10°
  • Wed4°11°4.0 mm17 km/h NWBase 8 / 15°
  • Thu2°8°2.2 mm27 km/h WBase 6 / 12°
  • Fri6°9°0.6 mm26 km/h WBase 10 / 13°
  • Sat6°16°3.0 mm18 km/h NBase 11 / 21°
  • Sun4°12°21.4 mm25 km/h SBase 8 / 16°
  • Mon1°4°3.0 mm19 km/h SBase 6 / 8°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 55% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
55.0%
Moderate, 15–30°
42.8%
Steep, 30–45°
2.2%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
2.2% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view
675 m low point 0 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 67.0%Grassland 30.9%Water 1.1%Built-up 0.6%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Mount Cargill summit.

NESW1 km3 km123
Summit list 3
  1. 1Buttars Peak617 m 0.6 km E
  2. 2Mount Holmes575 m 1.2 km ENE
  3. 3Martins Hill338 m 2.4 km SSE
Where it sits

Where Mount Cargill sits

Region
Otago Region19New Zealand112Oceania282
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Mount Cargill downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 675 m at the summit; the official height is 676 m.Official 676 m90 m model 668 mThis map 675 m

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)676 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)675 m-1 m
Copernicus GLO-90668 m-8 m

Data sources

Terrain
Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-03-18)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Accuracy comparison
Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia