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NSW Identified Wilderness

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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Boundaries of identified wilderness areas in NSW under S.6 of the Wilderness Act 1987. Under the Wilderness Act 1987, wilderness is land which: • is substantially unmodified by humans or is capable of restoration; • is of sufficient size be maintained in an unmodified state; and • is capable of providing opportunities for solitude and appropriate self-reliant recreation. An area can be nominated as wilderness by any person or organisation. Those lands are assessed by the Department of Planning and Environment to determine whether they meet the wilderness criteria. Lands found to meet the criteria in the Act are identified as wilderness by the Department of Planning and Environment. Identified wilderness differs from declared wilderness. Identified wilderness is a recognition of an area’s values, whereas declared wilderness has statutory protection and must be managed in a way which will maintain its wilderness values.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title NSW Identified Wilderness
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0af36def-9b5d-4755-9fa9-0685deed6a11
Remote Last Updated 14/03/2024
Contact Point
Reference Period 02/07/1982 - 31/12/2014
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        140,
        -38
      ],
      [
        140,
        -28
      ],
      [
        154,
        -28
      ],
      [
        154,
        -38
      ],
      [
        140,
        -38
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "NSW Identified Wilderness". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-nsw-identified-wilderness