Equatorial Sundial Orientation Table - Mt Tomah, NSW, Australia - Orientation Tables on Waymarking.com

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

Artist / Creator: Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Location / Access: Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens Opens 9am - 5pm Date of creation: Not listed

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