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COLLECTION of tide and wave data at Macquarie Island (54.30 S., 158.50 E.) was resumed in March 1964, 50 years after Leslie Blake operated his tidal gauge on the Island, when a simple pressure recorder was installed near the permanent Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition station. It was destroyed 6 weeks later by a severe storm after recording the Tsunami of the Alaskan earthquake of March 28, 19641. An improved type of pressure recorder with wider frequency response was installed early in 1965 and began to yield satisfactory records a few days before the relief ship returned to Australia. The present communication refers to the analysis of these preliminary data and their interpretation.
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The Tsunami of March 28, 1964, as recorded at Tide Stations (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1965).
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NOYE, B., RADOK, J. Southern Storm Centres and Ocean Wave Spectra. Nature 211, 287–288 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211287a0
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