Here's How Gravity Varies Across Australia And Why You Weigh More In Tasmania Than Queensland

Keen weight-watchers might notice that standing on a set of scales in Tasmania produces a slightly higher reading than in Queensland.
That’s because the Earth isn’t perfectly spherical, so gravity varies ever so slightly around the world.

An Australian-German research team recently combined gravity measurements with satellite data and small-scale topographical models to find that gravity varies by about 0.7%: about 40% larger than previously expected.

That means a 100kg person weighs 700g more near the North Pole, where gravity is 9.83ms-2, than at Peru’s Nevado Huascaran summit, where gravity is 9.76ms-2.

The same person would weigh 200g more in Tasmania than Queensland, where gravity is 9.78ms-2 and 9.805ms-2 respectively.

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