Australian Marine Parks

ISO-19139 Metadata

Resource Identification Information:

Citation:
Title:  Australian Marine Parks
Alternate titles:  MARINE_SDE.AustralianMarineParks

Reference date - creation:  2018-01-25
Reference date - revision:  2025-02-10

Presentation format:  mapDigital

Unique resource identifier:
Value: ecedecba-1a39-4933-868f-a96bb3cf4eed

Other citation details: Australian Marine Parks, (2023) Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Party responsible for the resource - custodian: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Marine Data Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 02 6274 1111
Fax: 02 6274 1666
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: Canberra
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Party responsible for the resource - publisher: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Metadata Publisher

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: (02) 6274 1111
Fax: 02 6274 1666
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: CANBERRA
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Themes or categories of the resource:  oceans, boundaries

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  MARINE_Conservation, MARINE_Planning, MARINE_Reserve, MARINE_Networks

Thesaurus name:
Title:  ANZLIC Search Words

Reference date - revision:  2008-05-15

Edition: Version 2.1
Edition date:  2008-05-15

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  MARINE_Conservation, MARINE_Planning, MARINE_Reserve, MARINE_Networks

Thesaurus name:
Title:  ANZLIC Search Words

Reference date - revision:  2008-05-15

Edition: Version 2.1
Edition date:  2008-05-15

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  MARINE_Conservation, MARINE_Planning, MARINE_Reserve, MARINE_Networks

Thesaurus name:
Title:  ANZLIC Search Words

Reference date - revision:  2008-05-15

Edition: Version 2.1
Edition date:  2008-05-15

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  MARINE_Conservation, MARINE_Planning, MARINE_Reserve, MARINE_Networks

Thesaurus name:
Title:  ANZLIC Search Words

Reference date - revision:  2008-05-15

Edition: Version 2.1
Edition date:  2008-05-15

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Downloadable Data

Thesaurus name: ArcGIS Content Type
Abstract:  This data contains spatial and contextual information about Australian Marine Parks proclaimed under the Commonwealth Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which are managed by Parks Australia, with the addition of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve, which is managed by the Australian Antarctic Division. The Australian Marine Parks include the North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East Networks, the Coral Sea Marine Park, and the Indian Ocean Territories Marine Parks. These parks were established in Commonwealth waters consistent with the Australian Government’s commitment to develop a National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas.More information can be found at:Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve – Australian Antarctic ProgramThis dataset does not include marine protected areas in other Australian jurisdictions (e.g. the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, State/Territory marine parks), or terrestrial protected areas with marine components (e.g. Pulu Keeling National Park). More information can be found at:Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaMore information about the zoning and rules for activities for each of the networks can be found here:Coral Sea: Coral Sea Marine Park | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaIndian Ocean Territories: Indian Ocean Territories Marine Parks | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaNorth network: North Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaNorth-west network: North-west Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaSouth-east network: South-east Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaSouth-west network: South-west Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaTemperate East: Temperate East Marine Parks Network | Australian Marine Parks | Parks AustraliaSince this dataset was originally published in 2018 there have been the following updates:1. A technical amendment was made on the basis of user feedback (April 30th 2019). Macquarie Island was the only marine park affected by this amendment. The area calculation for Macquarie Island Marine Park was previously under reported by 483km2. This will have affected statistical analyses that used the calculated area (KM2) as an input. This amendment is superseded by item 4 below.2. A zoning boundary error identified at West Island in Ashmore Reef Marine Park was corrected (March 2022).3. Two new Australian Marine Parks were added to this dataset in March 2022; Christmas Island Marine Park and Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park.4. The addition of the expanded Macquarie Island Marine Park which came into effect on 1 July 2023, replacing the boundaries of the original marine park proclaimed in 1999.5. The expanded Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve took effect on 24 January 2025. 6. The South-east Marine Parks zoning updates under the new management plan came into effect on 13 February 2025.

Purpose: National dataset of the Australian Marine Parks.

Dataset language:  eng
Dataset character set:  utf8

Status:  completed
Maintenance:
Update frequency:  asNeeded


Resource constraints:
Constraints:
Limitations of use: This dataset is released under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Access constraints:  license
Use constraints:  license

Other constraints: This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. More information can be found at http://creativecommons.org.au/learn/licences.

Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Access constraints:  license
Use constraints:  license

Other constraints: CC BY

Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Access constraints:  copyright
Use constraints:  copyright

Other constraints: © Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water) 2023

How the resource is used:
Description: Australian Marine Park Boundary

How the resource must not be used: The areas identified should be considered as authoritative, and therefore accurate in the context of their intended use. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.

Party using the resource - custodian: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Marine Data Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 02 6274 1111
Fax: 02 6274 1666
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: Canberra
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Spatial representation type:  vector
Format:
Format name: Shapefile
Format version: 1


Processing environment: Esri ArcGIS 12.9.4.32739

Spatial resolution:
Dataset's scale:
Scale denominator: 150000
Extent:
Geographic element - Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: 109.23348
East longitude: 170.366667
North latitude: -8.881893
South latitude: -58.44947
Extent:
Geographic element - Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: 67.054053
East longitude: 170.366667
North latitude: -8.473407
South latitude: -58.44947
Supplemental information: published externally

Credits: Australian Marine Parks © Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 2025

Point of contact - pointOfContact: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Marine Data Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 02 6274 1111
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: Canberra
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au

Spatial Representation - Vector:

Level of topology for this dataset:  geometryOnly
Geometric objects:
Object type:  composite
Object count: 216

Reference System Information:

Reference system identifier:
Value: 4283
Code space: EPSG
Version: 6.5(3.0.1)

Data Quality Information:

Scope of quality information:
Level of the data:dataset

Lineage:
Lineage statement: Australian Marine Parks have been created in accordance with the Australian Government's 'Goals and Principles for the Establishment of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas in Commonwealth Waters'. Boundaries of the areas are based on analysis done by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water of key environmental and socio-economic data. The lines that make up the reserve boundaries were created/sourced as described below: - parallels and meridians were generated in ArcGIS and then densified to 0.025 decimal degrees (approx. 2.5km) prior to incorporation with other linework. - intermediate points along geodesic lines (note that, geodesic lines are the shortest line between points, they are not lines of constant bearing) were generated. A maximum segment length of 5km was used, which for this data ensures geodesic lines are within 1 metre of their true position. - maritime boundaries were sourced from AMB 2014a v3.0 (Geoscience Australia). - for Cocos (Keeling) Islands marine park, 30k coastline data (Geoscience Australia, 2010) was used to approximate the high water mark that describes part of the park boundary within the lagoon at South Keeling Islands. Orthophotography (Geoscience Australia, 2011) and 2011 coastline data (Geoscience Australia) were also used to derive the park boundaries of the two National Park Zones at South Keeling Islands. - for the Christmas Island marine park, the inner boundary of the park was defined using three data sources; the Collaborative Australian Protected Areas database (DCCEEW, 2021), Normal Baselines Limit (AMB 2014a v3.0, Geoscience Australia) and the Port of Christmas Island boundary (created by DCCEEW was described in the Notice of Declaration of Security Regulated Port - Port of Christmas Island 2013). -For the expanded Macquarie Island Marine Park reproclaimed in 2023, the outer and inner boundaries were defined using the Exclusive Economic Zone and coastal waters limit (Australian Maritime Boundaries 2020), respectively. For each Australian Marine Park, appropriate linework was generated and then used to construct polygons in ArcGIS.

Data quality report - Absolute external positional accuracy:
Conformance test results:
Test passed: true
Meaning of the result: The areas identified should be considered as authoritative, and therefore accurate in the context of their intended use. Line work from the AMB dataset has a scale of approx 150,000.

Description of conformance requirements:
Title:  Absolute External Positional Accuracy Check

Reference date - revision:  2023-06-14

Data quality report - Non quantitative attribute accuracy:
Conformance test results:
Test passed: true
Meaning of the result: Attributes include NetName (name of each network) ResName (name of each marine reserve), Zone (type of management zone within each reserve), ZoneIUCN (the IUCN assigned to each zone) NatLegend (to apply symbology), PolygonID (unique ID applied to each polygon area) and Area_km2 (area in square kms). The attributes should be considered authoritative.

Description of conformance requirements:
Title:  Non Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Check

Reference date - revision:  2023-06-14

Data quality report - Conceptual consistency:
Conformance test results:
Test passed: true
Meaning of the result: The extent, boundaries and attributes of the data conforms with its intended use.

Description of conformance requirements:
Title:  Conceptual Consistency Check

Reference date - revision:  2023-06-14

Data quality report - Completeness omission:
Conformance test results:
Test passed: true
Meaning of the result: Spatial and attribute data is complete for the Australian Marine Parks.

Description of conformance requirements:
Title:  Completeness Omission Check

Reference date - revision:  2023-06-14

Distribution Information:

Distributor:
Distributor information - distributor: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Marine Data Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 02 6274 1111
Fax: 02 6274 1666
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: Canberra
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Function performed:  download
Description: 002
Format:
Format name: Shapefile
Format version: 1

Format:
Format name: ArcGIS Layer File
Format version: 1

Format:
Format name: ESRI FGDB
Format version: 1

Transfer options:
Format:
Format name: Feature Class
Format version: 1

Transfer options:
Transfer size: 1.292

Medium of distribution:
Medium name:  onLine

Metadata Information:

Metadata language:  eng
Metadata character set:  utf8


Last update:  2025-02-10
Maintenance:
Update frequency:  asNeeded


Maintenance contact - custodian: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Marine Data Manager

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 02 6274 1111
Address:
Delivery point: GPO Box 3090
City: Canberra
Administrative area: ACT
Postal code: 2601
Country:  AU
e-mail address: geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au

Metadata constraints:
Legal constraints:
Access constraints:  license
Use constraints:  copyright

Limitations of use: This dataset is released under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Metadata contact - owner: 
Organization's name: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Contact's position: Marine Parks and Islands Branch, Parks Australia

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 1800 069 352
Address:
Delivery point: Edgar Waite Building, 203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Administrative area: TAS
Postal code: 7050
Country:  AU
e-mail address: marineparks@awe.gov.au
Online resource:
Online location:https://www.dcceew.gov.au
Scope of the data described by the metadata:  dataset
Scope name: dataset

Name of the metadata standard used: ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Version of the metadata standard: 2007

Metadata identifier: ecedecba-1a39-4933-868f-a96bb3cf4eed
URI of the data described by the metadata: withheld