🔬 Macquarie Island Station

Australia · Oceania · 54.50°S, 158.94°E

Quick facts

Country	Australia
Continent / region	Oceania
Coordinates (approx.)	54.50°S, 158.94°E · view on map
Distance to the equator	6,067 km south of it
Solar time	UTC+10:30 — read from longitude, so it is the sky's clock rather than the government's
Sun today (UTC)	Rises 17:34, sets 08:42 — 15 h 09 min of daylight

Macquarie Island Station is located in Australia, in Oceania.

Closest research stations

Arrival Heights Laboratory — 2,612 km away, in Antarctica
Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station — 2,940 km away
Joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station — 4,005 km away
Avondale Agricultural Research Station — 4,121 km away
Douglas-Daly Experiment Station — 5,124 km away

Straight-line distances on a sphere, computed from the coordinates. A road would be longer.

More research stations in Australia

Avondale Agricultural Research Station · Douglas-Daly Experiment Station · Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station · Joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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