Equatorial Sundial Orientation Table - Mt Tomah, NSW, Australia
S 33° 32.361 E 150° 25.353
56H E 260669 N 6285942
Surrounding the Equatorial Sundial are cast markings for various localities and distances from Mount Tomah.
Waymark Code: WMYMBX
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 06/28/2018
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The first time I was here there was too much water on the base for me to be able to discern the various localities identified, so on a return trip I was able to get better photos of the base of this unique Sundial. [ON Wednesday 14 December 2016 I had been at Stockton (~145 km NE of here), in Newcastle, and the temperature was 43°C by the beach, and 18 hours later, on the Thursday morning that I first visited the Blue Mountain Botanic Gardens it was a cool 11°C when I awoke at 6am, just outside the gates; only getting to a top of 13°C at 3pm that afternoon at Mt Victoria! While when I came back 14 months later it was a pleasant 27°C]
It has still been hard to discern and properly transcribe all of the localities indicated on the hexagonal Orientation Table that forms the base of the Equatorial Sundial (especially the western ones). So, starting with the northern sector, and then going in a clockwise direction the places, many of which are Botanic Gardens, are:
#1 'Northern Sector'
- Cairns 2013 km
- Tokyo 7774 km
- Lae, P.N.G. 2999 km
N ->
- 692 km Mt Coot Tha, Brisbane
#2 'Northeastern Sector'
- 8130 km Raual Hawaii
- 12004 km Univ. Calif. Berkeley
- 12115 km Huntington, L.A.
= 12180 km Rancho Santa Ana, L.A.
- 14918 km Chicago, Illinois
- 14580 km Missouri, St Louis
= 15588 km R.B.G. Hamilton, Ontario
- 16038 km New York, Bronx
= 16042 km Brooklyn, New York
- 15085 km Fairchild, Miami
- 14771 km Cuba
- 13674 km Rio De Janeiro
#3 'Southeastern Sector'
- Buenos Airies 12208 km
- Auckland 2261 km
- Wellington 2307 km
- Christchurch 2188 km
- R.B.G. Sydney 81 km
- Dunedin 2188 km
- Mount Annan 88 km
#4 'Southern Sector'
"S" ->
- 1074 km R.B.G. Hobart
#5 'Southwestern Sector'
- Canberra 231 km
- R.B.G. Melbourne 686 km
- Adelaide 1095 km
- Kirstenbosch 10988 km
#6 'Northwestern Sector'
- Kings Park, Perth 3224 km
- Reunion 9177 km;
= Harare 11421 km
- Mauritius 9041 km
- Canary Islands 13186 km
- Jerusalem 14048 km;
= Paris 16881 km
- Paoua 13235 km;
= Pisa 16399 km
= R.B.G. Kew 13929 km
- Palmengarten 13495 km;
= Bogor 5396 km
- RBG Edinburgh 16803 km;
= Berlin 16023 km
- Singapore 6221 km
- Uppsala, Sweden 15526 km
- Moscow, Russia 14395 km
- Calcutta 8067 km
- Darwin 3084 km
- Kunming, Yunnan 8240 km
- Guangzhou, China 7422 km
** Any Errors, and inadvertent omissions are mine! **
Visited: 1133, Thursday, 8 February, 2018;
First time: 0704-8, Thursday, 15 December, 2016