Outcome: 1. Environment	Question No:  48
Division/Agency:	International Land and Analysis Division / Bureau of Meteorology
Topic:	Tidal gauges
Hansard Page ECITA:	128

Senator McLucas asked:
Could you provide me with a list of places where there is sea level monitoring equipment?

Answer:
High precision sea level monitoring gauges around the Australian continent managed by the National Tidal Centre in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology are located at Cocos Islands, Groote Eylandt, Darwin, Broome, Hillarys, Esperance, Thevenard, Port Stanvac, Portland, Lorne, Stony Point, Burnie, Spring Bay, Port Kembla, Rosslyn Bay and Cape Ferguson.

Sea level gauges in the Pacific managed by the National Tidal Facility are located at Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority operates tide gauges to aid navigation within Torres Strait at the following sites:  Booby Island, Goods Island, Turtle Head, Ince Point, and Nardana Patches.