Topographic Map of Queenstown

Queenstown sits on the shore of Lake Wakatipu beneath the aptly named Remarkables, a range that rises in a sheer wall to over 2,300 m. The glacial lake and its surrounding peaks make one of the most dramatic settings of any town in the Southern Hemisphere.

The terrain around Queenstown

The Remarkables front the lake to the southeast with brutally steep contours; Ben Lomond rises directly behind the town, and Cecil and Walter Peaks close the western shore. Lake Wakatipu's zigzag glacial trough threads between them, its flat water framed by relief that climbs almost 2,000 m from the shoreline.

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.