Warraberalgahl and Porumalgal IPA: 9 Island Boundaries from 2014

Nine islands, cays, and rocks comprising the Warraberalgahl and Porumalgal Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Australia. The IPA covers approximately 63 hectares and was officially declared on 18 July 2014. The Australian Ocean Data Network created this dataset by manually drawing polygons over Google Earth imagery using GPS coordinates.

Use Cases

• Mapping the spatial extent of the protected area based on the described island boundaries.
• Analyzing conservation coverage based on the declared 63-hectare area.
• Studying indigenous land management areas based on the IPA designation.
• Visualizing island geography based on the manually drawn polygon data.

Strengths

• Contains specific location data for 9 named islands, cays, and rocks.
• Declared area size is quantified as approximately 63 hectares.
• Has a precise declaration date of 18 July 2014.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Polygons were manually drawn over Google Earth imagery using GPS coordinates.

Time Range

2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-14 08:46:45.018344; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Warraberalgahl and Porumalgal Indigenous Protected Area, Australia