Recreational Boating

Created 21/12/2025

Updated 21/12/2025

This resource is relates to recreational use patterns from surveys with recreational boaters at 12 locations around Australia across 2019-2020. The collected recreational use patterns are intended to be indicative of use levels for various marine areas. Use patterns were recorded during face-to-face surveys at boat ramps using gridded maps upon which boaters indicated areas they had visited in the last 12 months along with approximate percentages, indicating the relative time spent at each location.

Data is supplied modelled frequency of recreational boating trips (per grid cell per year), based on aggregated boat ramp survey data.

Data Source: https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/9f40ac0c-e0b1-436b-abc7-b19bc7159d86 Report: https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/document/social-and-economic-benchmarks-australian-marine-parks

Site as: Navarro, M, Langlois, TJ, Burton, M, Hegarty, A, Aston, C, Kragt, ME, Rogers, A (2021) Social and economic benchmarks of the Australian Marine Parks; https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/node/4682

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Recreational Boating
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7cef23da-d7e2-4a9b-9c6c-6321196f6901
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
matthew.navarro@uwa.edu.au
Reference Period 15/12/2025
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.67,
        -44.17
      ],
      [
        154.67,
        -44.17
      ],
      [
        154.67,
        -9.67
      ],
      [
        112.67,
        -9.67
      ],
      [
        112.67,
        -44.17
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Recreational Boating". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/recreational-boating