Topographic Map of Åndalsnes

Åndalsnes lies where the Romsdalen valley meets the Romsdalsfjord, beneath some of the boldest rock walls in Europe. The Trollveggen — the Troll Wall — rises here as the tallest vertical rock face on the continent, right above the valley.

The terrain around Åndalsnes

The Trollveggen and the sharp horn of Romsdalshorn climb toward 1,700 m directly from the valley floor, with the Rauma river threading the flat bottom of Romsdalen out to the fjord. On the map the flat valley and fjord read as open corridors squeezed between walls of extraordinarily dense contour, the near-vertical faces packing the lines almost solid.

How this map was made

Every contour line traces a constant elevation drawn from public SRTM 30 m radar data, extracted with a marching-squares algorithm at a 100 m interval and coloured by height — cool blues in the valley climbing to warm reds on the summits. The satellite base layer and the contours share the same Web Mercator projection, so the lines fall exactly on the ground they describe.

You can regenerate this exact view — and change the interval, colours, resolution or export it as a print-ready SVG — directly in the TopoLines editor.