Australian Major Ports and Public Ferry Terminals with Spatial Attribution

Australia and its territories host a collection of maritime facilities represented in this spatial dataset. The web service provides access to the locations of major ports and public ferry terminals, complemented with feature attribution. Geoscience Australia Data maintains the dataset, which was last updated on 2026-04-20.

Use Cases

• Map maritime infrastructure density based on spatial locations of ports and terminals.
• Analyze public ferry network accessibility based on terminal locations.
• Integrate port locations into supply chain or economic models based on the described feature attribution.

Strengths

• Spatial data covers Australia and its territories, providing a national scope.
• Dataset includes feature attribution for the represented maritime facilities.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-04-20 03:46:02.907824.

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

Geoscience Australia Data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 03:46:02.907824; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia and its territories