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Colonel William Light's Trig Station A - SA

Colonel William Light's Trig Station A

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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

Address & Contact

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.

PlaceID	117663

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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Adelaide Airport at 02/12:00am CST

Distance from Colonel William Light's Trig Station A 6.97km SW

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
11.2°C	9.0°C	72%	6.3°C	1031.1hPa	0.0mm	ESE	7km/hr 4knots	9km/hr 5knots

Closest Climatic Station

Adelaide (Kent Town)

Distance from Colonel William Light's Trig Station A 3.11km E

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	29.3	29.4	26.4	22.7	18.9	16.1	15.3	16.6	19.0	21.8	25.2	27.0
Mean Min. °C	17.1	17.2	15.3	12.4	10.2	8.1	7.5	8.2	9.7	11.5	14.1	15.6
Mean Rain mm	19.0	13.5	27.2	39.6	59.9	79.3	74.7	68.8	59.2	43.1	30.9	29.0