Geoscience Australia - National Surface Hydrology (Polygons) 2014

Created 01/08/2025

Updated 01/08/2025

This dataset presents national surface hydrological in-land waterbodies in Australia as polygons which describe the area of the body of water at the 1:250,000 scale. This includes the following feature types:

Aquaculture Area

Canal Area

Estuary

Farm Dam Area

Flood Irrigation Storage

Foreshore Flat

Lake

Land Subject to Inundation

Saline Coastal Flat

Swamp

Watercourse Area

For more information please visit the Geoscience Australia Web Service Portal. Please note:

This dataset is a snapshot of Geoscience Australia's web service dataset as on 2019-03-12

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Geoscience Australia - National Surface Hydrology (Polygons) 2014
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e89ea925-f516-4cb1-8b52-5b11adf7dd05
Remote Last Updated 06/03/2025
Contact Point
Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Geoscience Australia
support@aurin.org.au
Reference Period 06/03/2025
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        96.81,
        -43.75
      ],
      [
        159.11,
        -43.75
      ],
      [
        159.11,
        -9.14
      ],
      [
        96.81,
        -9.14
      ],
      [
        96.81,
        -43.75
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network "Geoscience Australia - National Surface Hydrology (Polygons) 2014". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.aurin.org.au/dataset/au-govt-ga-ga-hydrology-polygons-national-2014-na