NORFOLK ISLAND

Station Information

Station ID: 821
Latitude: -29.058333
Longitude: 167.953611
GLOSS ID: 124
Coastline code: 680
Station code: 91
Country: NORFOLK ISLAND
Time span of RLR data: 1994 – 2015
RLR completeness (%): 92
Time span of metric data: 1957 – 2015
Metric completeness (%): 47
Date of last update: 28 Sep 2016

Green Arrow: Current Station
Yellow Marker: Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker: Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: NORF
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: kjni
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 62: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-11-13

Data before 1984 based on hourly heights

Documentation added 1995-05-02

Station density along some sections of the Australian coast has meant that station codes 601 onwards have been re-ordered compared to those in earlier versions of the PSMSL data set.

Documentation added 1996-05-03

Data for 1990 previously supplied by C.S.I.R.O Tasmania replaced by a revised dataset from National Tidal Centre, Bureau of Meteorology, South Australia

Documentation added 1996-05-10

Data for 1984-1989 supplied by C.S.I.R.O. Tasmania

Documentation added 1998-01-27

Gauge type=float/stilling well

Documentation added 2010-08-26

Supplying authority have confirmed that from September 1994 tide gauge zero is AHD Tide gauge benchmark MNV/C/445 is 3.563 m above AHD RLR (2007) is defined as 9.6 m below MNV/C/445

Documentation added 2016-07-07

The datum for Norfolk Island was changed from NITD to LAT from 1.9.94-24.6.2010. 30mm was added to the data during this period to raise the data to LAT datum for consistency when the BoM tsunami radar was installed. The revised data has been included in the dataset.

Documentation added 2016-11-22

This site was decommissioned on 15 September 2015.

Data Authority

National Tidal Centre
Bureau of Meteorology
PO Box 421
Kent Town 5071
South Australia

Documentation added 2010-08-12

Formerly known as the National Tidal Facility