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Soil Resources

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Soils are one of the key factors which limit human settlement in Australia. Few Australian soils are of good quality - most are naturally infertile. This map shows the extent of soil limitations across the country. In order to overcome problems associated with the many classifications in existence, this map classes soils according to limitations of use - in particular chemical and physical limitations. Altogether, four primary groupings are shown and these are further divided into a total of 29 mapping units. A detailed table relates these units to traditionally classified soil profiles and landforms. Product Specifications: Coverage: Australia Currency: 1976-77 Coordinates: Geographical Datum: AGD66 (GDA94 compliant at this scale) Projection: Simple Conic on two standard parallels 18S and 36S Medium: Paper, flat and folded copies

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Field Value
Title Soil Resources
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1939e217-9608-46ae-987e-60a21ed44cb9
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 22/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Soil Resources". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/soil-resources