Seabed habitat New South Wales State Waters

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Digitised habitat layers for the New South Wales continental shelf predominantly to 3NM. The shape file contains polygons of areas of 1) reef and 2) unconsolidated seafloor types as interpreted from a number of remote sensing methods predominantly mulitbeam, LIDAR (LADS) and Aerial Imagery obtained in surveys across 2005-2013.

Data and resources

SHAPE-ZIP

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SeamapAus_NSW_seabed_habitat_statewide_2013

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SeamapAus_NSW_seabed_habitat_statewide_2013

MAP - NSW seabed habitat mapping

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SUPPLEMENTARY DATA - NSW habitats divided into MPA/non-MPA (Shapefile 96MB) [direct download]

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2005-01-02 – 2013-01-31
Date (creation)	2015-12-11
Date (publication)	2017-06-01
Status	completed
Update frequency	notPlanned
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show