MILNER BAY (GROOTE EYLANDT)

Station Information

Station ID: 1160
Latitude: -13.860056
Longitude: 136.415583
Coastline code: 680
Station code: 15
Country: AUSTRALIA
Time span of RLR data: 1993 – 2022
RLR completeness (%): 96
Time span of metric data: 1966 – 2022
Metric completeness (%): 72
Date of last update: 27 Feb 2023

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 Real Time Stations from VLIZ: groo
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 145: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

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 1996-03-28

Revised data received fro the National Tidal Centre, Bureau of Meteorology, South Australia. SEAFRAME station installed 25/09/1993

Documentation added 2000-04-10

This is a "baseline station" of the Australian National Tidal Facility.

Documentation added 2000-04-10

Millner Bay (Gr.Ey.)680/015 RLR(2000) is 12.61m below BM F159

Documentation added 2000-04-10

Millner Bay is also called Groote Eylandt.

Documentation added 2011-10-27

Using metadata from the National Tidal Centre, Australia the RLR diagram has been revised. Primary benchmark BM 4567 SEAFRAME benchmark is 6.864m relative to datum Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT). RLR factor is 5.9m.

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