Australian Major Ports and Public Ferry Terminal Locations

Geoscience Australia Data provides a web service for the National Maritime Facilities dataset. It contains the spatial locations of major ports and public ferry terminals within Australia and its territories, with feature attribution. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-30.

Use Cases

• Mapping maritime infrastructure networks based on spatial locations of ports and terminals.
• Analyzing regional accessibility based on the distribution of public ferry terminals.
• Planning logistics and supply chain routes based on the locations of major ports.

Strengths

• Spatial data is attributed with feature information, as mentioned in the description.
• Covers Australia and its territories, providing a national scope.
• 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.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 12:41:20.148605; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia and its territories