Australian National Maritime Facilities: Ports and Ferry Terminals

Geoscience Australia Data provides a spatial dataset of maritime facilities across Australia and its territories. The data represents the locations of major ports and public ferry terminals, complemented with feature attribution. The web service was last updated on 2026-04-30.

Use Cases

• Map maritime infrastructure networks based on the spatial locations of ports and ferry terminals.
• Analyze regional accessibility to public ferry services based on terminal locations.
• Conduct site suitability analysis for new maritime facilities based on existing infrastructure distribution.

Strengths

• Spatial data covers all of Australia and its territories, providing national scope.
• Includes attribution for features, which likely contains descriptive information about each facility.
• Published by Geoscience Australia Data, a national geoscience agency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-04-30).

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 13:39:44.220638

Geography

Australia and its territories