Mountain · Eyre Mountains · Otago Region

Walter Peak

1,800 m5,906 ft

Prominence: 486 m1,594 ft
Isolation: 3.8 km
Tonight: 1°CCloudy · Wind 23 km/h NW

Walter Peak is a 1,800 m (5,906 ft) mountain in the Eyre Mountains, Otago Region, New Zealand.

All facts

Elevation: 1,800 m · 5,906 ft
Nearest higher peak: Cecil Peak (1,978 m)
Range: Eyre Mountains
Region: Otago Region, New Zealand
Coordinates: 45.1288° S, 168.5607° E

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3D map

Walter Peak 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Walter Peak terrain and contours

50 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 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Walter Peak elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Walter Peak weather

Today · Fair · 1 / 7°C (34 / 45°F) · Wind 23 km/h NW

Walter Peak forecast for the summit, about 1,800 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 310 m.

Today1°7°–23 km/h NWBase 10 / 16°
Sun3°8°2.8 mm24 km/h NWBase 12 / 17°
Mon-4°8°48.7 mm25 km/h NBase 4 / 17°
Tue-3°0°0.1 mm13 km/h WBase 6 / 9°
Wed-3°2°21.9 mm16 km/h NWBase 6 / 11°
Thu-4°0°9.7 mm10 km/h WBase 5 / 9°
Fri-1°1°2.1 mm15 km/h WBase 8 / 10°
Sat2°6°3.9 mm11 km/h NWBase 11 / 15°
Sun-3°6°60.8 mm10 km/h NBase 5 / 15°
Mon-4°-4°6.9 mm4 km/h NEBase 5 / 5°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°

18.5%

Moderate, 15–30°

25.7%

Steep, 30–45°

47.9%

Cliffs, 45° and over

7.8%

Steeper than 30°: 55.7% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 1,420 m low point 310 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 72.0%Trees 17.6%Water 8.7%Bare rock / sparse 1.3%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 116 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Paradise Shelduck18
Great Crested Grebe17
Mallard13
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee7
House Sparrow5
Black-billed Gull5

Where it sits

Where Walter Peak sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Lake Hayes25 km NE

Downloads

Walter Peak downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGWalter Peak satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-02-27.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

70 m low This 3D map reads 1,730 m at the summit; the official height is 1,800 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 89 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,800 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,730 m	-70 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,711 m	-89 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 2026-02-27)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: 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