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Marine Habitats of Western Australia

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 28/09/2025

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This dataset consists of polygons delineating the broad-scale regional marine habitats of selected areas in Western Australia, mostly in existing and proposed marine conservation reserve areas. Habitat mapping was carried out by various organisations, including DPAW, using a range of methodologies over many years. Diverse classifications and habitat descriptions were standardised to the DPaW broad-scale Shallow-water Marine Habitat Classification scheme (SMHC) (Bancroft, 2003) after initial habitat mapping and classification work had been done. Habitat polygons are classified to the broad-scale ecological Community level and where more detailed data exist, local-scale Functional Group level (Bancroft, 2003). Polygons were attributed with habitat class names only, textual descriptions of these classes are provided in this metadata statement and further in Bancroft (2003).

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Title Marine Habitats of Western Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4e4842ec-10c5-4231-8e6c-8d6c70a3a494
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Geoffrey.banks@dpaw.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1981 - 31/12/2003
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        111.10367,
        -35.32429
      ],
      [
        125.61416000000001,
        -35.32429
      ],
      [
        125.61416000000001,
        -16.272864053988
      ],
      [
        111.10367,
        -16.272864053988
      ],
      [
        111.10367,
        -35.32429
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Marine Habitats of Western Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/marine-habitats-of-western-australia