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Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 4
Citable as data publication
Flanders Marine Institute (2023). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 4. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/633
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Territorial Seas from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. Territorial seas are a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state.

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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) and Archipelagic Waters (AW).


Scope
Themes:
Boundaries
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Administrative units, Boundaries, Data not evaluated, Esri Shapefile, Exclusive economic zones, Geopackage, Geoscientific Information, Google Keyhole Markup Language (KML/KMZ), 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), moredata creatordata ownerdata managerdatabase developer

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 12, more
Previous version:
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 3, more

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

Metadatarecord created: 2023-10-09
Information last updated: 2023-10-25
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