SYDNEY, FORT DENISON

Station Information

Station ID:	65
Latitude:	-33.85
Longitude:	151.233333
GLOSS ID:	57
Coastline code:	680
Station code:	141
Country:	AUSTRALIA
Time span of data:	1886 – 1993
Completeness (%):	100
Frequency Code:	HL
Date of last update:	10 May 2000

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.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: SYDN
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 333: hourly, daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 333: hourly, daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 02-MAY-95 :
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.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 11-JUN-91 :
Sydney, F.Denison 680/141 RLR(1972) is 12.7m below PM 101
=========================== BENCHMARK INFORMATION UPDATE ADDED 12-JUL-93 :
Sydney, F.Denison 680/141 RLR(1972) is 12.7m below PM 101
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 2000May10 :
Data from this Fort Denison record were obtained from authority 93 up
until 1993. Data are MTL (high and low waters). Values for 1914 and
earlier are taken from a recomputation of the data by B.V.Hamon,
'A century of tide records: Sydney (Fort Denison) 1886-1986',
Flinders Institute for Atmospheric and Marine Sciences Technical
Report No.7, July 1987.
Later data from Fort Denison can be found in other PSMSL records and
are MSL, based on data from a new tide gauge.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 2000May10 :
Note that Hamon estimated MSL-MTL to be only 1.7 mm at Fort Denison.
Sydney, Fort Denison is an historic station kast data 1993

Data Authority

Maritime Services Board of N.S.W.

Box 32 G.P.O.

Sydney

N.S.W. 2001

AUSTRALIA