• UK Magnetic Survey

The Falklands Islands magnetic observatory is situated on top of Sapper Hill, 2km south-west of Port Stanley.

The observatory was installed by the British Geological Survey with financial support from a consortium of oil companies and became operational in February 1994.

Statistics

Geographic Coordinates:

51.704° S

302.107° E

Geomagnetic Coordinates:

42.183° S

012.175° E

Elevation:

135m above mean sea level

Geomagnetic coordinates are approximations calculated using the 11th generation IGRF at epoch 2013.5.

Data

• Monthly Bulletin Archive
• Annual Means
• Minute and Hourly Means (from World Data Centre)

Articles

• Paper - Ascension and Port Stanley geomagnetic observatories and monitoring the South Atlantic anomaly (2009)
• Poster - BGS remote magnetic observatories in the South Atlantic : an operational history (2005)
• Poster - Results from the BGS South Atlantic Observatories : Ascension Island and the Falkland Islands (2003)