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Parks Data Manager
GPO Box 3090
Canberra
ACT
2601
geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
AU
02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
https://www.dcceew.gov.au
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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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GPO Box 3090
Canberra
ACT
2601
geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
AU
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02 6274 1666
https://www.dcceew.gov.au
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 7 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>This dataset details the Dedicated Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA) across Australia through the implementation of the Indigenous Protected Areas Programme. These boundaries are not legally binding.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 7 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>An Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is an area of Indigenous-owned land or sea where traditional Indigenous owners have entered into an agreement with the Australian Government to promote biodiversity and cultural resource conservation-making up over half of Australia's National Reserve System.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 7 0;"><SPAN>Further information can be found at the website below.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 7 0;"><SPAN>https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/indigenous-protected-areas</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 7 0;"><SPAN>https://www.niaa.gov.au/indigenous-affairs/environment/indigenous-protected-areas-ipas</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Indigenous Protected Areas (IPA) - Dedicated
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When using this data in visual material (e.g. maps, web sites) the CC By licence requires citation of this data in an acknowledgement as "Dedicated Indigenous Protected Areas, Commonwealth of Australia 2026."
The use of this data for the development of another data product should include the following statement within metadata of the new product that is embedded within and delivered with it: "This data has been developed using the Dedicated Indigenous Protected Areas, Commonwealth of Australia 2026."
vector digital data
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Parks Data Manager
GPO Box 3090
Canberra
ACT
2601
geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
AU
02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
https://www.dcceew.gov.au
002
Data Manager
Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
This data has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. More information can be found at http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons.
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When using this dataset for analysis or mapping you must always acknowledge the National Indigenous Australians Agency and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water © Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and National Indigenous Australians Agency, 2026.
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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Parks Data Manager
GPO Box 3090
Canberra
ACT
2601
geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
AU
02 6274 1111
02 6274 1666
https://www.dcceew.gov.au
002
Data Manager
Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
CC BY
© Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and National Indigenous Australians Agency, 2026.
It is the responsibility of the person using the IPA dataset to always check the metadata for the currency date within each jurisdiction and if required seek advice from the IPA Programme on details of more recent gazettals of protected areas.
This dataset is unsuitable for use in any legal issue regarding boundaries. The land title authority in your area should be referred to for accurate and appropriate legal spatial data.
The spatial boundaries were originally compiled by the NRS program and by ERIN since February 2009. Boundaries have been compiled as areas that have been declared through the IPA Programme. In 2006 ERIN revised the IPA dataset to align with the Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD). This included modification of the spatial data to remove discrepancies as well as an attribution review for accuracy and completeness. This was undertaken with advice from the IPA Programme staff. Since February 2009 most boundaries have been sourced directly from the Indigenous Management Group (IMG) responsible for that IPA. Where this has occurred, it is marked in the Source field.
Note: On occasions the spatial boundaries of declared IPAs may alter as new and more up-to-date mapping is made available from IMG's to ERIN. This will alter the GIS area (Ha) figure. Some IPAs have had their boundaries realigned to be consistent with the Geoscience Australia GEODATA COAST 100K 2004 dataset
Absolute External Positional Accuracy Check
2022-06-21T00:00:00
Boundaries were either provided as spatial data, compiled using cadastral boundary, roads or rivers layers, digitized from hand drawn maps or plotted using textual descriptions.
The accuracy of the boundaries copied from existing GIS data vary from less than 1m to 500m. The existing GIS data scale ranged from 1:1,000 (ACT) to 1:500,000 (northern WA).
Boundaries of large areas are densified with vertices to increase their spatial area accuracy.
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Non Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Check
2016-09-21T00:00:00
All anomalies were corrected by DCCEEW in consultation with the IPA Programme staff. Attributes in the IPA dataset are a subset of CAPAD attribute fields and are as follows:
NAME: official (gazetted) name of a IPA or unofficial name. Gazetted IPAs with no name are flagged as "Unnamed". TYPE: official gazetted designation of the IPA.
STATE: State the IPA is located in.
STATUS: whether the IPA is ‘dedicated’ or not.
GAZ_AREA: area of IPA in hectares as described in the nomination document (eg. parliamentary gazettal), to the nearest hectare.
GIS_AREA: area of IPA in hectares as calculated in ArcGIS using the Australian Albers Equal Area projection. Where IPAs are made up of multiple polygons (parts) the GIS_AREA is the sum of all the polygons.
IUCN: the IUCN protected area category described by the Managing authority, as outlined in the IUCN publication: "Guidelines for applying Protected Area management categories". Gland: IUCN, 2013. (ISBN: 978-2-8317-1636-7).
IUCN Definitions include:
Ia Strict Nature Reserve: PA managed mainly for science;
Ib Wilderness Area: PA managed mainly for wilderness protection;
II National Park: PA managed mainly for ecosystem protection;
III Natural Monument: PA managed mainly for conservation of specific natural features;
IV Habitat / Species Management Area: PA managed mainly for conservation through management intervention;
V Protected Landscape / Seascape: PA managed mainly for landscape/seascape conservation and recreation;
VI Managed Resource Protected Area: PA managed mainly for the sustainable use of natural ecosystems.
AUTHORITY: This attribute contains code sets for the contributing State/Territory nature and conservation agencies and Indigenous Land Councils.
Definitions include:
ILC = Local Indigenous Land Council
IMG = Indigenous Management Group
TSRA = Torres Strait Regional Authority
GAZ_DATE: original gazettal/ proclamation date.
LATEST_GAZ: Date of most recent gazetted amendment or verification.
ENVIRON: Where an IPA component comprises of land (T=terrestrial) or sea country (M=marine).
SOURCE: Source of spatial dataset (e.g., CAPAD). Definitions include: Cadlite = Cadastral parcels, as supplied by the Public Sector Mapping Authorities [PSMA/Geoscape], Cons = Consultant / Third party contractor, CAPAD = Terrestrial component of CAPAD, DLI = WA Land Information Authority (Landgate) DPIPWE = Tas Dept of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, IMG = Indigenous Management Group, NNTT = National Native Title Tribunal, NRETAS = NT Dept of Land Resource Management (formerly the Dept of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport), NRSP = National Reserve System Program, DCCEEW
COMMENTS: Any comments, name changes, etc
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Conceptual Consistency Check
2022-06-21T00:00:00
Attribute data conform to a subset of the nationally agreed CAPAD specifications. All source datasets which were not consistent with the CAPAD standards were corrected as required.
Spatial data of source datasets were checked and corrected for mismatches across jurisdictional boundaries (see lineage for further details).
All polygons were given visual checks for spatial errors and for appropriate attribute information.
1
Completeness Omission Check
2022-06-21T00:00:00
All Dedicated IPAs are complete to the revision date of this dataset.
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Length of feature in internal units.
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Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
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Area of feature in internal units squared.
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Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
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