Australian National Maritime Facilities: Ports and Ferry Terminal Locations

Geoscience Australia Data provides a spatial dataset of major ports and public ferry terminals across Australia and its territories. The web service, last updated on 2026-04-20, offers access to these locations with feature attribution. This dataset is delivered via a Web Map Service (WMS) and HTML formats.

Use Cases

• Map national maritime infrastructure based on spatial locations of ports and terminals.
• Analyze regional connectivity based on the distribution of public ferry terminals.
• Integrate port locations into supply chain or environmental models based on attributed features.

Strengths

• Spatial data covers all of Australia and its territories.
• Features include attribution for ports and ferry terminals.
• Maintained by Geoscience Australia, a national scientific 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 despite the 2026-04-20 update date.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 02:20:30.174963

Geography

Australia and its territories