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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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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).


Lineage
See https://marineregions.org/eezmethodology.php

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
MRG: Marine Regions, towards a standard for georeferenced marine names, more
LifeWatch: Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.eu, more
Funding FWO International research infrastructure
Grant agreement ID I002021N

Data type: Data
Metadatarecord created: 2023-10-09
Information last updated: 2024-12-02
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