Colonel William Light's Trig Station A - SA

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Position

DEG: -34.922241 138.587494
DMS: 34º 55' 20.07" S 138º 35' 14.98" E
UTM: 54 H 6132923mN 279624mE
Altitude: 34m

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1 North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
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This new Bronze plaque marks the exact point where Colonel William Light started his historic survey of Adelaide on 2nd May 1837 and was known as “Trig Station A”.

Colonel Light was the first surveyor in the world to use trigonometrical surveys to fix property boundaries and to lay out the proportions for the future suburbs of the new Colony of South Australia and was far more accurate than using the standard chain survey that was common practice until then.
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Closest Weather Station

Adelaide Airport at 29/05:30am CDT
Distance from Colonel William Light's Trig Station A 6.97km SW
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Adelaide (Kent Town)
Distance from Colonel William Light's Trig Station A 3.11km E
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean Max. °C29.329.426.422.718.916.115.316.619.021.825.227.0
Mean Min. °C17.117.215.312.410.28.17.58.29.711.514.115.6
Mean Rain mm19.013.527.239.659.979.374.768.859.243.130.929.0

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