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Surface Water of Australia

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Geometric representations of major surface water features of Australia, such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, dams, canals and catchments. Also includes hydrologic features such as catchment boundaries and drainage basins. Value: This data is not authoritative, but represent a valuable resource for visualisation, decision support and planning activities. Scope: This is a National dataset at resolution relevant for presentation of regional spatial data such as digital maps.

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Title Surface Water of Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/626679a4-2ad3-4927-9838-8c23f4b4b942
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 09/11/2020
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        96.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        169.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        169.0,
        -8.9
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -8.9
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Surface Water of Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/surface-water-of-australia