Declared Wilderness Areas in New South Wales, Australia

Boundaries for wilderness areas in NSW declared under Section 8 of the Wilderness Act 1987. The dataset is published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and was last updated in May 2026. It provides the legal spatial definitions for protected wilderness regions.

Use Cases

• Map wilderness protection zones based on declared legal boundaries.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of protected areas based on wilderness area data.
• Integrate wilderness boundaries with other land-use datasets for environmental impact assessments.

Strengths

• Legal boundaries defined by the Wilderness Act 1987.
• Published by a state government environmental department.
• Last updated in May 2026.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia