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Plymouth topographic map

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Name: Plymouth topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Plymouth, Devon, South West England, England, PL1 1HH, United Kingdom (50.21127 -4.30257 50.53127 -3.98257)

Average elevation: 81 m

Minimum elevation: -3 m

Maximum elevation: 512 m

The River Plym, which flows off Dartmoor to the north-east, forms a smaller estuary to the east of the city called Cattewater. Plymouth Sound is protected from the sea by the Plymouth Breakwater, in use since 1814. In the Sound is Drake's Island which is seen from Plymouth Hoe, a flat public area on top of limestone cliffs. The Unitary Authority of Plymouth is 79.83 square kilometres (30.82 sq mi). The topography rises from sea level to a height, at Roborough, of about 509 feet (155 m) above Ordnance Datum (AOD).