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(archived) Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM)
Citable as data publication
Flanders Marine Institute (2018). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 2. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/313
Previous version view
Flanders Marine Institute (2016). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 1. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/ . https://doi.org/10.14284/243
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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. more

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, Exclusive economic zones, Law of the sea, Territorial waters, World Oceans

Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata managerdatabase developerdata ownerdata creator

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

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: GIS maps
Metadatarecord created: 2016-10-14
Information last updated: 2020-06-17
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