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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), more, data creator, data owner, data manager, database developer
Lonneville, Britt
Fernández Bejarano, Salvador Jesús
Whatley, Lawrence
Schepers, Lennert
Tyberghein, Lennert
Vanhoorne, Bart
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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