PORT WHANGAREI

WARNING: METRIC STATION
THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA.
USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.

Station Information

Station ID: 1035
Latitude: -35.766667
Longitude: 174.35
Coastline code: 690
Station code: 101
Country: NEW ZEALAND
Time span of data: 1963 – 2007
Completeness (%): 30
Date of last update: 01 Oct 2008

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.

Station Documentation

Documentation added 2003-01-17

New data from John Hannah added 17/01/03 which supercedes old data.
New data does not have any missing days information.
Old data has been backed up.

Documentation added 2003-01-17

New data from John Hannah was for Auckland II, Dunedin II,
Lyttelton II and Wellington II.

Documentation added 2005-10-17

There is a new John Hannah paper referring to New Zealand data for
Wellington, Dunedin, Lyttelton and Auckland. The reference is:
"An updated analysis of long-term sea level change in New Zealand."
Geophysical Research Letters, V31, L03307, doi:10.1029/2003GL019166
(2004).

Documentation added 2008-10-07

Data received from Glen Rowe of LINZ for 1987-2007
Previous data held ends in 1964. Bench mark details were
queried. Bench mark at Port Whangarei remains
BM No.1 - see email of 7.10.08.

Data Authority

Department of Survey and Land Information
P.O. Box 170
Wellington