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Seamap Australia - national seafloor habitat V1.0

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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The Seamap Australia spatial data layer is a nationally synthesised data product of seafloor marine habitat data. Australian continental shelf benthic habitat layers in GIS format were collected from various stakeholders around the country. Through compiling all of these data sets, we established a controlled vocabulary, reviewed by ANDS and external independent assessors, to produce a national classification of marine habitats. This national marine habitat classification scheme complements work undertaken by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub (Theme D). The Seamap Australia product is of national importance and highlights the diversity of benthic habitats around our marine estate. This is the first edition of a seafloor marine habitat data layer that seamlessly brings together data from each of Australia’s state and territory marine habitat databases. Seamap Australia is a constantly evolving product as we continuously improve our skills in standardising, collating and sharing marine spatial data. This record describes a static version of the Seamap Australia national data layer as of 28/11/2018. The most current version of the data is available from the Seamap Australia website [http://seamapaustralia.org/map]. We envisage that the 'live' product will be constantly developed and updated as future surveys continue to improve our knowledge of our vast marine estate.

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Title Seamap Australia - national seafloor habitat V1.0
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c5cd0695-f9ff-4878-926d-4acb5d118b45
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Vanessa.Lucieer@utas.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/1967 - 30/06/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        110.03906250000001,
        -44.7244895
      ],
      [
        158.90625,
        -44.7244895
      ],
      [
        158.90625,
        -8.33777075
      ],
      [
        110.03906250000001,
        -8.33777075
      ],
      [
        110.03906250000001,
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      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Seamap Australia - national seafloor habitat V1.0". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/seamap-australia-national-seafloor-habitat-v1-0