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Originally Posted by someone123
Cowie Hill is shorter than Geizer Hill (around where the radio towers are in Clayton Park). Google Earth says the highest point on Geizer Hill is about 153 m, 502 feet.
I'm not sure many people would agree with you that a 500 foot hill doesn't even qualify as "hilly" but I guess it's arbitrary. For more concrete context this is what these areas look like. You can compare the buildings for scale:
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Geezer Hill (sorry, I mean Geizer Hill) probably wasn't even developed when I was there so I didn't remember it, it would have been more of a backdrop to the city. That site says it's 492 ft., but the actual peak may be undeveloped as well. So, the term "hilly" would also depend on prominence and degree of slope rather than actual elevation, but Vancouver and Halifax are both coastal cities, where it begins at zero elevation. I still don't regard Halifax or Vancouver as "hilly", but in most coastal areas that aren't plains or deltas there is an area of prominent slope towards the ocean.
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