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.
Lyttelton II 690/022 RLR(1970) is 10.1m below BM UD 40
Documentation added 2000-04-05
Data for this station come from the work of John Hannah, Journal of Geophysical Research, 95(B8), 12399-12405, 1990. This is an historic station last data 2000
Documentation added 2003-01-17
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.
Documentation added 2003-01-17
New data from John Hannah was for Auckland II, Dunedin II, Lyttelton II and Wellington II.
Documentation added 2005-10-17
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).
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