Pollution Events Summary, Australia 1970-2015 (AMSA)

Created 25/06/2017

Updated 11/08/2023

This data contains summaries at 0.1 deg of all suspected and confirmed oil pollution events reported to, or suspected by AMSA. Data on the date, geographic location, source type and ship type was provided by AMSA. This data was summarised over the entire time period (1970-2016) at 0.1 degree resolution and the count of the number of incidents produced.

http://www.amsa.gov.au/environment/major-historical-incidents/index.asp

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Title Pollution Events Summary, Australia 1970-2015 (AMSA)
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6605abd3-9741-485d-8b32-c7f8c631dcdc
Contact Point
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)
piers.dunstan@csiro.au
Reference Period 25/06/2017
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        105.0,
        -66.0
      ],
      [
        153.0,
        -66.0
      ],
      [
        153.0,
        -8.0
      ],
      [
        105.0,
        -8.0
      ],
      [
        105.0,
        -66.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Data.gov.au