Australia's network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves

Consistent with the Australian Government's commitment to develop a National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), networks of Commonwealth Marine Reserves have been proclaimed for Commonwealth waters across the South-west, North-west, North, Coral Sea and Temperate East Marine Regions. These networks build on previous Marine Protected Area proclamations, including the South-east network declared in 2007.\\n\\nThis dataset is released under Creative Commons by Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia (CC BY-NC 3.0).\\n\\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MARINE USERS\\nTransitional arrangements apply to the South-west, North-west, North and Temperate East Networks and the Coral Sea reserve, until management plans come into effect. These arrangements involve NO CHANGES ON THE WATER for marine users. Note, there are no changes to management arrangements in the marine reserves that existed prior to the establishment of the new reserves, that is, the same restrictions on activities will continue to apply even where those reserves have been incorporated into new reserves. The South-east Network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves is managed under the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2013-23, in place from 1 July 2013. More information is available at www.environment.gov.au/marinereserves \\n\\nThis data contains spatial and contextual information about Commonwealth Marine Reserves under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth governments Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which are managed by the Australian Government Department of the Environment. It does not include data on MPA's in other Australian jurisdictions (e.g. the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, State/Territory parks), or Terrestrial Protected Areas with marine components (eg Pulu Keeling National Park).

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Date (Creation)
1982-08-16
Date (Revision)
2014-03-28
Identifier

https://data.ozcoasts.org.au/geonetwork9fb04042-5544-4860-8298-1165b5e35998

Identifier

https://data.ozcoasts.org.au/geonetwork/9fb04042-5544-4860-8298-1165b5e35998

Custodian
 

Australian Government Department of the Environment

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Marine Data Manager

GPO Box 787

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Canberra

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ACT

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2601

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02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
http://www.environment.gov.au/
Publisher
 

Australian Government Department of the Environment

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Metadata Publisher

GPO Box 787

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CANBERRA

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ACT

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(02) 6274 1111
(02) 6274 1333
http://www.environment.gov.au/
Presentation form
Digital map
Credit

Australia's network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves. © Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of the Environment, 2014
Status
Completed
Point of contact
 

Australian Government Department of the Environment

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Marine Data Manager

GPO Box 787

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Canberra

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ACT

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2601

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02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
http://www.environment.gov.au/
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Name

Shapefile
Version

1

ANZLIC Search Words

  • MARINE_Conservation

  • MARINE_Planning

  • MARINE_Reserve

  • MARINE_Networks
Keywords

  • Downloadable Data
Use limitation

This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia Licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia Licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/

Access constraints
Copyright
Other constraints

Australia's network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves. © Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of the Environment, 2014
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

Not for commercial use
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
Environment description

Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.2.3552
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Supplemental Information

published externally
Reference system identifier

EPSG

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4283

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8.2.6
Topology level
Geometry only
Geometric object type
Composite
Geometric object count
177
Distribution format

  • SDE Feature Class

     ()

Distributor

Distributor
 

Australian Government Department of the Environment

GPO Box 787

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Canberra

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ACT

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2601

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02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
http://intspat01.ris.environment.gov.au/fed
Name

Shapefile
Version

1
Name

ArcGIS Layer File
Version

1
OnLine resource
002
Transfer size
0.915
OnLine resource
acef-default:commonwealth_marine_reserves_network_2012 (

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network 2014

OnLine resource
commonwealth_marine_reserves_network_mar2014.zip (

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

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Download zip file

OnLine resource
Point of truth metadata record (

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
2014-12-05
Explanation

The areas identified should be considered as authoritative, and therefore accurate in the context of their intended use. Line work from the AMB dataset has a scale of about 150,000.
Pass
Yes

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
2014-12-05
Explanation

Attributes include MPA_NAME (name of each marine reserve), NETWORK, ZONE (type of management zone within each reserve) and Area_km2 (area in square kms). The attributes should be considered authoritative.
Pass
Yes

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
2014-12-05
Explanation

The extent, boundaries and attributes of the data conforms with it's intended use.
Pass
Yes

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
2014-12-05
Explanation

Spatial and attribute data is complete for the commonwealth marine reserves networks.
Pass
Yes
Statement

Australia's network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves have been created in accordance with the Australian Government's 'Goals and Principles for the Establishment of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas in Commonwealth Waters'. Boundaries of the areas are based on analysis done by the Department of the Environment of key environmental and socio-economic data.\\n\\nThe lines that make up the reserve boundaries were created/sourced from:\\n- parallels and meridians were generated in ArcGIS and then densified to 0.05 decimal degrees (approx. 5km) prior to incorporation with other linework. \\n- intermediate points along geodesic lines (note that, geodesic lines are the shortest line between points, they are not lines of constant bearing) were generated. A maximum segment length of 5km was used, which for this data ensures geodesic lines are within 1 metre of their true position.\\n- maritime boundaries were sourced from AMB 2006 v2.0 (Geoscience Australia).\\n\\nFor each MPA, appropriate linework was generated/selected and then intersected to form polygons.
File identifier
9fb04042-5544-4860-8298-1165b5e35998 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset
Date stamp
2021-01-19T18:26:47
Metadata standard name

ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata standard version

2007
Point of contact
 

Australian Government Department of the Environment

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Marine Data Manager

GPO Box 787

 ,

Canberra

 ,

ACT

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2601

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02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
http://www.environment.gov.au/
Dataset URI

Server=draco.ris.environment.gov.au; Service=5152; Version=SDE.DEFAULT; Dataset=MARINE_SDE.comm_marine_reserves
 
 

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Keywords

ANZLIC Search Words
MARINE_Conservation MARINE_Networks MARINE_Planning MARINE_Reserve

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