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INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION (of UNESCO) SEA LEVEL MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN NATIONAL REPORTS MAURITIUS Sachooda Ragoonaden and B. Dunputh Meteorological Services Headquarters St. Paul’s Road, Vacoas Mauritius. Tel: 230-6861031/32 Fax: 230- 686 1033 Email: meteo@intnet.mu  INTRODUCTION History of sea-level measurement In Mauritius, sea-level recording is available but in discontinuous mode. Information obtained from the Ministry of Housing, Lands, Town and Country Planning, indicates comprehensive levelling surveys were conducted all over island in 1881 by the H.M.S Navy and in 1902/03 by Mr. W.H. Harrison of the Colonial Office. Most of the mountains, hills and important places in Mauritius were measured to the nearest foot above the MSL. However, no details on the bench mark used for reference purposes could be found. On the other hand, from the Bench Marks surveying book of the Public Works Department (now the Ministry of Works), it was found that four bench marks were established in March 1915 in Port Louis. One of the bench marks which is relevant to this study was a brass plate fixed at + 6.096 m (20 feet) AMSL against a wall situated inside the yard of the Treasury building, Port Louis. The first hint about the existence of a tide-gauge was obtained from the Mauritius Marine Authority. Apparently the zero of this side staff was selected in 1929. It corresponded to the level of the mean low at spring tides which was obtained by taking the average of the low water spring tide levels over a 48 month period. However, no information on any bench marks which could be used for the present study is available for that period. Further research revealed that the only continuous records of sea-level available at the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PMSL) in Bidston, U.K. for Port Louis are obtained from a Munro floating type gauge which was located in a stone building on the south, co