Marine Protected Area Design Data for Southeastern Australia

Southeastern Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone is the focus of this dataset related to marine protected area network development. The data supports the implementation of Australia's 1998 Oceans Policy and the first Regional Marine Plan from 2003. It is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Designing a network of representative Marine Protected Areas based on geophysical information.
• Supporting Regional Marine Planning processes for Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone.
• Informing marine environment management under the framework of the 1998 Oceans Policy.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a formal government policy (1998 Oceans Policy) and a specific regional planning process (2003).
• Geographic scope is clearly defined as the southeastern region of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone.
• Hosted by the authoritative Australian Ocean Data Network.

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

Australian Ocean Data Network

Time Range

Associated with planning processes from 2003 onward.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 08:48:00.109216; freshness should be verified

Geography

Southeastern region of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone.