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Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fisheries Sectors

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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This dataset covers the area of the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) around Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI). The Fisheries sector areas were originally created by Dick Williams, former Fisheries biologist at the Australian Antarctic Division for the HIMI fishery, to define areas of research fishing for the first longline vessels to fish at HIMI in 2003 and 2004. This dataset consists of a polygon shapefile representing the sector areas and a map displaying the sector areas. Each polygon has the attributes polygon number and area in square kilometres. The dataset was created in December 2015 using current boundaries as listed in the Quality section of this record.

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Field Value
Title Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fisheries Sectors
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/39ce809a-7177-45c0-9218-49f16af4282d
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2003
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        67.041,
        -56.015
      ],
      [
        79.418,
        -56.015
      ],
      [
        79.418,
        -50.068
      ],
      [
        67.041,
        -50.068
      ],
      [
        67.041,
        -56.015
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fisheries Sectors". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/heard-island-and-mcdonald-islands-fisheries-sectors