Marine Protected Area Design Data for Southeastern Australia, 2003

Geoscience Australia Data provides information supporting the design of a representative Marine Protected Area network in Australia's southeast region. This work relates to the 1998 Oceans Policy and the 2003 regional marine planning process. The dataset likely contains geophysical information used to inform marine environmental management.

Use Cases

• Designing marine protected area networks based on geophysical information mentioned in the description
• Analyzing regional marine planning outcomes based on the 2003 process for southeastern Australia
• Studying the implementation of Australia's 1998 Oceans Policy based on the described planning framework

Strengths

• Data originates from Geoscience Australia Data, a national geoscience agency.
• Focuses on the first region (southeastern Australia) to undergo marine planning under the 1998 policy.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Time Range

Planning process initiated in 2003.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 13:40:37.754076; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southeastern Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone.