ILET LA MERE

Station Information

Station ID: 2243
Latitude: 4.893783
Longitude: -52.190483
Coastline code: 876
Station code: 3
Country: FRENCH GUIANA
Time span of data: 1978 – 2017
Completeness (%): 40
Date of last update: 07 Aug 2019

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

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2016-06-21

Data for the station Ilet la Mer has only recently been added to the database. The tide gauge is on an island off French Guiana. The data comprises three separate periods January-December 1978, May 1989-October 1996 and March 2004 onwards.

Documentation added 2017-04-05

There was a change in Chart Datum in November 2013 for Ilet la Mere. The new datum is 10.7cm lower than the old datum. The recently complete dataset downloaded from SONEL has been adjusted for this.

Documentation added 2019-08-07

Using station information from the SHOM website the station has been made RLR. However, instead of a Benchmark name there is a description of the tide gauge. Because of this the Benchmark name has been entered on the RLR diagram TGBM.

Data Authority

SHOM
13 rue de Chatelier
29200 BREST