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World Marine Heritage Sites
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (2013). World Marine Heritage Sites (version 1). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. Consulted on YYYY-MM-DD. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8159
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This file contains the 46 World Marine Heritage Sites. Launched in 2005, the mission of the world Heritage Marine Programme is to establish effective conservation of existing and potential marine areas of Outstanding Universal Value to make sure they will be maintained and thrive for generations to come. In order to create the data, information from the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Programme and Protected Planet were collected and compiled.

Scope
Keywords:
Heritage areas, Unesco, World Oceans

Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creatordata provider


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: GIS maps
Release date: 2013-01-01
Metadatarecord created: 2022-12-01
Information last updated: 2022-12-01
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy