above/below sea level• Many islands are below sea level and only the levees prevent them from vanishing.• The city is 2500 feet above sea level.• The house is at 620 feet above sea level and the farm is on a gentle east-facing slope.• Because they were five thousand feet above sea level the climate was marvellous, apart from the wetseason.• Then, too, the ocean is so deep that its volume is six times greater than all landabove sea level.• And then there is that tsunami deposit found three hundred meters above sea level on Lanai!• Here the land rises to a thousand feet or more above sea level.• Damage is light, and there are no deaths or injuries because the residents live well above sea level.• Near the sea the glaciersscraped out their valleys well below sea level.