Pollution Events Summary, Australia 1970-2015 (AMSA)

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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 eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4140bbc2-65a1-4a15-b71e-3919aa32209f
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
piers.dunstan@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/2009 - 01/01/2013
Geospatial Coverage
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 CSIRO Marlin

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This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Pollution Events Summary, Australia 1970-2015 (AMSA)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/pollution-events-summary-australia-1970-2015-amsa1