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IHO Sea Areas, version 3
Citable as data publication
Flanders Marine Institute (2018). IHO Sea Areas, version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/323
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Notes: Use constraints: see Marine Regions disclaimer
Description
This dataset represents the boundaries of the major oceans and seas of the world. The source for the boundaries is the publication 'Limits of Oceans & Seas, Special Publication No. 23' published by the IHO in 1953.
Scope
Themes:
Boundaries, Geography
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Areas, Boundaries, Oceans, Seas, World Oceans
Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data creator
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
MarineRegions.org, more
(Partly) included in:
The intersect of the Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO sea areas, version 4, more
The intersect of the Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO sea areas, version 5, more
Other relation:
The intersect of the Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO sea areas, version 3, more
Publication
Used in this dataset
(1953). Limits of oceans and seas. 3rd edition. IHO Special Publication, 23. International Hydrographic Organization (IHO): Monaco. 38 pp., more
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Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: GIS maps
Release date: 2018-10-12
Metadatarecord created: 2016-09-26
Information last updated: 2018-10-12
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