Australian Maritime Facilities: Ports and Ferry Terminals with Spatial Attribution

Maritime facilities data provides the spatial locations of major ports and public ferry terminals within Australia and its Territories. The dataset is complemented with feature attribution and is served as a Web Map Service (WMS) by Geoscience Australia. It was last updated on March 25, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map maritime infrastructure networks based on spatial locations of ports and terminals.
• Analyze regional port accessibility based on the geographic distribution of facilities.
• Integrate ferry terminal locations into transportation planning models based on the spatial data.

Strengths

• Covers Australia and its Territories, providing national scope.
• Includes feature attribution for spatial points.
• Last updated on March 25, 2026.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Spatial data collection and compilation, likely from authoritative sources.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 16:07:49.897506; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia and its Territories