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PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESOURCES REGULATIONS 1987 - REG 9

9 .         Application of Geocentric Datum of Australia

        (1)         Subject to regulation 11, the GDA is the prescribed Australian datum for the purposes referred to in section 8(1) of the Act.

        (2)         The reference ellipsoid for the GDA is the Geodetic Reference System 1980 ( GRS80 ) ellipsoid with a semi-major axis of 6 378 137 m exactly and an inverse flattening (l/f) of 298.257 222 101.

        (3)         The reference frame for the GDA is realised by the coordinates of the following Australian Fiducial Network geodetic stations referred to the GRS80 ellipsoid determined within the International Earth Rotation Service Terrestrial Reference Frame 1992 (ITRF92) at the epoch of 1994.0 —

No.

Name

South Latitude

East Longitude

Ellipsoidal Height

AU 012

Alice Springs

23° 40′ 12.44592″

133° 53′ 07.84757″

603.358 m

AU 013

Karratha

20° 58′ 53.17004″

117° 05′ 49.87255″

109.246 m

AU 014

Darwin

12° 50′ 37.35839″

131° 07′ 57.84838″

125.197 m

AU 015

Townsville

19° 20′ 50.42839″

146° 46′ 30.79057″

587.077 m

AU 016

Hobart

42° 48′ 16.98506″

147° 26′ 19.43548″

41.126 m

AU 017

Tidbinbilla

35° 23′ 57.15627″

148° 58′ 47.98425″

665.440 m

AU 019

Ceduna

31° 52′ 00.01664″

133° 48′ 35.37527″

144.802 m

AU 029

Yaragadee

29° 02′ 47.61687″

115° 20′ 49.10049″

241.291 m

        [Regulation 9 inserted in Gazette 15 Dec 2000 p. 7213-14.]



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