Wave buoy stations of the Department of Transport, Western Australia
liveThe Department of Transport measures waves off the Western Australian coast with Datawell wave rider buoys. Older deployments used non-directional buoys and newer ones record wave direction as well.
The publisher lists its buoys in two layers. One holds the buoys in operation and the other holds past deployments since 1974. Each row links to the publisher's own downloads of that deployment's readings.
Department of Transport, Western Australia releases these 2 tables as one dataset on its portal, so every table here shares the version date 2026-10-03. Each table has its own page with a format picker, a field list, a sample record and its version history.
Also called: WA wave rider buoy locations, Wave Stations Historic, Wave Stations Operational, Wave Stations, Department of Transport (DOT-024).
| Table | Download latest | Rows | Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wave buoy stations in operation, Department of Transport, Western AustraliaThe Department of Transport's wave rider buoys in operation off the Western Australian coast, one row per buoy, with location, depth, the dates of its data and links to its readings. | 8 | 13 | |
| Past wave buoy deployments, Department of Transport, Western AustraliaPast deployments of Department of Transport wave rider buoys off the Western Australian coast since 1974, one row per deployment, with location, depth, dates and links to its data. | 43 | 13 |
What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version so the change can be checked.