Data
- Obtaining
- Supplying
- High-Frequency
- Bottom Pressure Records
- Other Long Records
- GLOSS/ODINAFRICA Calibration Data
Data Notes
- Individual Station Data and Plot Notes
- Referencing the Data Set
- PSMSL Help File
- 2010 Changes to the PSMSL Data Files
Extracted from Database
11 Jan 2021
Station Information
| Station ID: | 1115 |
| Latitude: | -24.898694 |
| Longitude: | 113.651028 |
| GLOSS ID: | 52 |
| Coastline code: | 680 |
| Station code: | 479 |
| Country: | AUSTRALIA |
| Time span of data: | 1965 – 2018 |
| Completeness (%): | 83 |
| Date of last update: | 28 Jan 2020 |
| 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.
Tide Gauge Data
Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 167: hourly and dailyResearch Quality Data from UHSLC station 167: 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 1996-05-20
Revised data up to 1984 received from the National Tidal Centre, Bureau of Meteorology, South AustraliaDocumentation added 1998-01-23
Current type of gauge=float/stilling well 1964-77 float/stilling well analogue gauge at the Main Jetty 1977-89 float/stilling well analogue gauge in present location in the boat harbourMay 1989 digital recorder installed
Documentation added 2002-05-27
Carnarvon 680/479 RLR(2000) is 10.892 below BM Peg 13Documentation added 2002-05-27
Datum relationships for Carnarvon data in the 1960s and 1970s are uncertain.Documentation added 2011-10-18
Using metadata from the National Tidal Centre, Australia the RLR diagram has been revised. Primary benchmark is now A 876 3.739m above Chart DatumDocumentation added 2013-03-14
It is now known that the reference datum for Carnarvon changed from Chart Datum to Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT) on 01/01/2009. The difference between the two is 0.14m RLR factor has changes from 6.0m to 5.86mData Authority
National Tidal CentreBureau of Meteorology
PO Box 421
Kent Town 5071
South Australia
Documentation added 2010-08-12
Formerly known as the National Tidal Facility
