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Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Extended Continental Shelves, version 1
Citable as data publication
Flanders Marine Institute (2022). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Extended Continental Shelves, version 1. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/577
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This dataset represents the legal continental shelves beyond 200 nautical miles as submitted to/recommended by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) or deposited to the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS). 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:
Administrative units, Boundaries, Data not evaluated, Esri Shapefile, Geopackage, Geoscientific Information, Google Keyhole Markup Language (KML/KMZ), Law of the sea, Metadata conformant, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), World Oceans

Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata managerdatabase developerdata ownerdata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 11, more
Following version:
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Extended Continental Shelves, version 2, more

Project
LifeWatch: Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.eu, more
MRG: Marine Regions, towards a standard for georeferenced marine names, more

Data type: GIS maps
Metadatarecord created: 2022-09-28
Information last updated: 2023-10-11
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy