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High Seas from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea describes the high seas as ‘all parts of the sea that are not included in the exclusive economic zone, in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State, or in the archipelagic waters of an archipelagic State.’ In the Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, Marine Regions makes available most of the maritime areas defined in the Law of the Sea Convention: Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), Territorial Seas (TS), Contiguous Zones (CZ), Internal Waters (IW), Archipelagic Waters (AW) and High Seas (HS).
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.","License":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","AccConstrDescription":"This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.","Lineage":null,"AccConID":21},"dois":[{"DOIID":1062,"PublicationYear":2024,"DOI":"10.14284/696","Citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2024). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: High Seas, version 2. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/.","MDAID":null,"Moratorium":0,"MDAURL":null,"CurrentDOI":1,"Active":1,"URL":"https://marineregions.org/download_file.php?name=World_High_Seas_v2_20241010.zip","downloadURL":null}],"spcols":[{"SpColID":39,"SpName":"VLIZ Acknowledged Publications"}],"keywords":[{"ThesaurusTerm":"Exclusive economic zones","ThesTypID":4,"ThesType":"CAB Thesaurus","Code":null,"Description":null,"OrigThesTerm":"Exclusive economic zones","DutchTerm":null,"URI":null,"DasKeywordDescr":null},{"ThesaurusTerm":"Law of the sea","ThesTypID":3,"ThesType":"Transportation Research Thesaurus","Code":"Crdm","Description":null,"OrigThesTerm":"Law of the sea","DutchTerm":null,"URI":null,"DasKeywordDescr":null},{"ThesaurusTerm":"World","ThesTypID":3,"ThesType":"Transportation Research Thesaurus","Code":"Jbde","Description":"The third planet of the solar system. For the solid component of the earth, distinct from air and water, refer to Rbe NATURAL EARTH CRUST MATERIALS","OrigThesTerm":"World","DutchTerm":null,"URI":null,"DasKeywordDescr":null},{"ThesaurusTerm":"World Oceans","ThesTypID":34,"ThesType":"ASFA Geoterms","Code":null,"Description":null,"OrigThesTerm":"World Oceans","DutchTerm":null,"URI":null,"DasKeywordDescr":null}],"parents":[{"DasID":8390,"Acronym":null,"EngAbstract":"Despite the strategic significance of EEZs, a standard georeferenced product with maritime boundaries was not available at the global level (Claus et. al, 2014), until it was developed and made available by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in 2006 (Deckers and Vanden Berghe, 2006).
The product developed at VLIZ consisted of two GIS layers providing both the maritime boundaries (lines) and the EEZs (polygons). The layers were regularly updated with 8 consecutive versions published between 2006 and 2014. Version 9 was launched by the VLIZ-hosted portal Marineregions.org in October 2016: Straight and archipelagic baselines were included, together with remaining areas defined by UNCLOS: internal and archipelagic waters, territorial seas and contiguous zones. For version 12 new line types are included and a new way of communicating issues is proposed.