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Ramsar Wetlands of Australia

Created 20/09/2025

Updated 20/09/2025

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National dataset of Australia's Ramsar Wetlands. The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (the Ramsar Convention) was signed in Ramsar, Iran on 2 February 1971. The Ramsar Convention aims to halt the worldwide loss of wetlands and to conserve, through wise use and management, those that remain. The Convention encourages member countries to nominate sites containing representative, rare or unique wetlands, or that are important for conserving biological diversity, to the List of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar sites). Australia was one of the first countries to become a Contracting Party to the Convention and designated the world's first Ramsar site, Cobourg Peninsula, in 1974. This project was initiated by the Wetlands Section of the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Spatial data was sourced from the relevant State and Territory agencies and compiled into a single national coverage.

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Title Ramsar Wetlands of Australia
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/103b7c0c-5ede-49d7-a37a-10fc32dc57e1
Remote Last Updated
Contact Point
DCCEEW's Find Environmental Data (FED)
geospatial@dcceew.gov.au
Reference Period
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        96.7999,
        -42.8288
      ],
      [
        96.7999,
        -10.4662
      ],
      [
        159.2333,
        -10.4662
      ],
      [
        159.2333,
        -42.8288
      ],
      [
        96.7999,
        -42.8288
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DCCEEW "Ramsar Wetlands of Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://fed.dcceew.gov.au/datasets/erin::ramsar-wetlands-of-australia-1