PORT ARTHUR

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Station Information

Station ID: 6
Latitude: -43.15
Longitude: 147.866667
Coastline code: 680
Station code: 203
Country: AUSTRALIA
Time span of data: 1840 – 1842
Completeness (%): 97
Date of last update: 03 Oct 2006

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 1995-05-02

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

Documentation added 2006-10-03

Historical mean tide level data from Port Arthur based on the research described in Hunter, J.,Coleman, R. and Pugh, D. 2003. The sea level at Port Arthur, Tasmania, from 1840 to the present. Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 1401, doi:10.1029/2002GL016813.

Data Authority

Land Information New Zealand
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PO 5501
Wellington 6145