Maritime Cables

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This data set contains the location of active and decommissioned submarine communication cables in Australian and surrounding international waters. The location of cables were derived from the 2015 Australian Hydrographic charts. Data is made publically available by the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub. Note: The following charts were used in the generation of this data set. QLD A0004620.tif NE – QLD A0004604.tif NE – QLD A0004621.tif SE – QLD A0004635.tif NSW A0004643.tif TAS/VIC A0004644.tif SA A0004709.tif WA A0004708.tif SW – WA A0000334.tif NW – WA A0004721.tif NW – WA A0004722.tif NT A0004720.tif

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Field Value
Title Maritime Cables
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/164f5382-361b-4c54-bdb9-e1caab1d1e9a
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
piers.dunstan@csiro.au
Reference Period 15/04/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        90.0,
        -45.0
      ],
      [
        166.0,
        -45.0
      ],
      [
        166.0,
        -4.0
      ],
      [
        90.0,
        -4.0
      ],
      [
        90.0,
        -45.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Maritime Cables". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/maritime-cables1