ACT Ginini Flats Ramsar Wetland Boundary Data

Ginini Flats Wetlands in Namadgi National Park is the only Ramsar site in the Australian Capital Territory. The dataset provides the boundary description for this wetland complex, first listed in 1996 and updated in 2013 and 2024. The boundary is supplied by the ACT Government Geospatial Data Catalogue.

Use Cases

• Map wetland conservation areas based on the detailed boundary description.
• Analyze spatial changes in protected wetlands based on the 2013 boundary update.
• Integrate wetland boundaries into regional ecological models based on the Ramsar site designation.
• Monitor compliance with Ramsar Convention management frameworks using the official boundary data.
• Study Sphagnum bog and fen communities using the spatial extent of the Ginini Flats complex.

Strengths

• Boundary updated in 2013 based on new information and transformed to GDA2020 in 2024.
• Provides a detailed textual description of the boundary with specific latitude/longitude points.
• Represents the largest intact Sphagnum bog and fen community in the Australian Alps.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

ACT Government Geospatial Data Catalogue (ACTmapi)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-04 02:58:28.035203; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ginini Flats Wetlands, Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory