LYTTELTON II

Station Information

Station ID:	259
Latitude:	-44.4
Longitude:	171.266667
Coastline code:	690
Station code:	22
Country:	NEW ZEALAND
Time span of data:	1924 – 2000
Completeness (%):	89
Frequency Code:	24
Date of last update:	17 Jan 2003

Green Arrow:	Current Station
Yellow Marker:	Neighbouring RLR 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.

Tide Gauge Data

Download metric sea level data. Use only with extreme caution. NOTE: If some of the data are red in the plots above, the 'flag for attention' is set. Please see the documentation below.

Station Documentation

=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 2003Jan17 :
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.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 2003Jan17 :
New data from John Hannah was for Auckland II, Dunedin II,
Lyttelton II and Wellington II.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 17-OCT-05 :
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).
=========================== BENCHMARK INFORMATION UPDATE ADDED 12-JUL-93 :
Lyttelton II 690/022 RLR(1970) is 10.1m below BM UD 40
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 2000Apr05 :
Data for this station come from the work of John Hannah, Journal
of Geophysical Research, 95(B8), 12399-12405, 1990.

Data Authority

Department of Survey and Land Information

P.O. Box 170

Wellington

NEW ZEALAND