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WA Coastal Tertiary Compartments (DOT-016)

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/10/2025

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Coastal compartments are structural features relating to geological features and landforms that can be used to provide a framework for planning and management of the coastine. The primary compartment boundaries for WA were determined by identifying major changes in rock type along the coast and changes in shoreline orientation, while incorporating complete landforms of coastal significance. The Primary compartments have been subdivided into secondary compartments based on landform associations and then further subdivided into tertiary compartments based on individual landforms present. This dataset was commissioned by the Department of Planning and compiled by Damara Pty Ltd and the Geological Society of WA. A full report was also prepared to accompany the dataset, published August 2011. Some superficial changes have been made to the dataset since publication of the report in order to amalgamate the data into a nationwide compartment dataset developed by Geoscience Australia.Attribution for this dataset is incomplete and ongoing. Geological and geomorphological information will be added to the dataset as it acquired.

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Title WA Coastal Tertiary Compartments (DOT-016)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/03f23962-90e4-4323-ad65-f93388e83c2a
Remote Last Updated 16/10/2025
Contact Point
Department of Transport
cdc@transport.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 20/01/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
      [
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      ],
      [
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      ],
      [
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      ],
      [
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  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "WA Coastal Tertiary Compartments (DOT-016)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wa-coastal-tertiary-compartments