Upper Hunter Valley

Sub-zone

Upper Hunter Valley is a GI subregion of Hunter in Australia.

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The map shows the official outline with relief, 3D terrain, slope and exposure, climate and soil.

Key facts

Type: GI subregion (Wine Australia)
Protected since: 2010
Area: 818,450 ha registered outline
Vineyard area: 471 ha
Centre: 32.1104° S, 150.8251° E
State: New South Wales
Legal basis: Wine Australia Act 2013; Register of Protected GIs and Other Terms.

Outline: Official outline from Wine Australia's Geographical Indications layer (CC BY 4.0).

Where it is

Nearest town: 7.9 km south-west of Scone
Nearest city: 98 km north-west of Maitland 89,597 people
To the sea: 126 km
Same latitude: Eastern Cape (South Africa), Córdoba Argentina (Argentina), Norte (Uruguay), Salamanca (Chile)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: -8–1,426 m
Mean elevation: 418 m

Measured over the whole outline on 122,842 elevation cells of about 259 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

Wine Australia GI register

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