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Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: High Seas, version 1
Citable as data publication
Flanders Marine Institute (2020). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: High Seas, version 1. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/418
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
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).

Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Exclusive economic zones, Law of the sea, Marine, World, World Oceans

Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]


Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 11, more
Source dataset:
The union of world country boundaries and EEZs, version 3, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: GIS maps
Metadatarecord created: 2020-07-29
Information last updated: 2024-10-04
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy