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Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 12
Citable as data publication
Flanders Marine Institute (2023). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 12. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/628
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description

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.

Scope
Themes:
Boundaries
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Administrative units, Boundaries, Contiguous zones, Data not evaluated, Esri Shapefile, Exclusive economic zone, Geopackage, Geoscientific Information, Google Keyhole Markup Language (KML/KMZ), International boundaries, Law of the sea, Metadata conformant, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Territorial waters, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), World Oceans
Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, database developer, data manager, data owner, data creator
Vanhoorne, Bart
Tyberghein, Lennert
Fernández Bejarano, Salvador Jesús
Lonneville, Britt
Whatley, Lawrence
Schepers, Lennert
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
MarineRegions.org, more
Child datasets:
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Archipelagic Waters, version 4, more
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Contiguous Zones (24NM), version 4, more
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Extended Continental Shelves, version 2, more
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: High Seas, version 2, more
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Internal Waters, version 4, more
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (200NM), version 12, more
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 4, more
(Partly) included in:
The intersect of the Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO sea areas, version 5, more
The union of world country boundaries and EEZs, version 4, more
Previous version:
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 11, 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: 2023-10-09
Information last updated: 2023-10-25
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy