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Boundaries of UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites (v02) Citable as data publication UNESCO (2023). Boundaries of UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites (v02). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/592 Contact: Availability: ![]() Description This file contains the shapefile of the 50 marine sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List (as of 1 January 2023). 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. Lineage Changelog v01: 4 new marine world heritage sites (Archipiélago de Revillagigedo, French Austral Lands and Seas, Lord Howe Island Group, Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay - Mukkawar Island Marine National Park), changed names (Wadden Sea, Papahānaumokuākea), updated geometry, addition of buffer zones Scope Keywords: Conservation, Data not evaluated, Environment, Esri Shapefile, Heritage, Marine, Metadata conformant, No limitations to public access, Protected sites, Unesco, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), World Oceans Geographical coverage World Oceans [Marine Regions] Contributors Related datasets Parent dataset: MarineRegions.org, more URLs Dataset status: Completed Data type: GIS maps Release date: 2023-02-08 Metadatarecord created: 2023-02-01 Information last updated: 2023-02-08 |