{"title":"Exclusive Economic Zones (200 NM) (v11, world, 2019)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eez","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (200NM), version 11. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/386","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6316","abstract":"Version 11 of the Exclusive Economic Zones from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a seazone extending from a state's coast or baseline over which the state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. Generally a state's EEZ extends 200 nautical miles out from its coast, except where resulting points would be closer to another country. This dataset also contains delimitation of disputed areas and joint regimes.\r\n\r\nUpdate (2021-01-14): corrected centroid longitude for features crossing the dateline"}
{"title":"Maritime Boundaries (v11, world, 2019)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eez_boundaries","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (200NM), version 11. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/386","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6316","abstract":"Version 11 of the Maritime Boundaries from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. Boundaries have been built using information about treaties between coastal countries. When treaties are not available, median lines have been calculated. This dataset also contains delimitation of disputed boundaries and joint regimes."}
{"title":"Territorial Seas (12 NM) (v3, world, 2019)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eez_12nm","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas (12NM), version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/387","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6319","abstract":"Version 3 of the Territorial Seas from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. Territorial seas are a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state.\r\n\r\nUpdate (2021-01-14): corrected centroid longitude for features crossing the dateline"}
{"title":"Contiguous Zones (24 NM) (v3, world, 2019)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eez_24nm","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Contiguous Zones (24NM), version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/384","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6320","abstract":"Version 3 of the Contiguous Zones from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. The Contiguous Zone is a band of water extending from the outer edge of the territorial sea to up to 24 nautical miles (44.4 km; 27.6 mi) from the baseline.\r\n\r\nUpdate (2021-01-14): corrected centroid longitude for features crossing the dateline"}
{"title":"Internal Waters (v3, world, 2019)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eez_internal_waters","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Internal Waters, version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/385","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6317","abstract":"Version 3 of the Internal Waters from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. Internal Waters are the waters on the landward side of the baseline of a nation's territorial waters, except in archipelagic states. It includes waterways such as rivers and canals, and sometimes the water within small bays."}
{"title":"Archipelagic Waters (v3, world, 2019)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eez_archipelagic_waters","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Archipelagic Waters, version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/383","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6318","abstract":"Version 3 of the Archipelagic Waters from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. Archipelagic Waters are waters falling within archipelagic baselines.\r\n\r\nUpdate (2021-01-14): corrected centroid longitude for features crossing the dateline"}
{"title":"High Seas (v1, world, 2020)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"high_seas","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2020). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: High Seas, version 1. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/418","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6544","abstract":"High Seas from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea describes the high seas as ‘all parts of the sea that are not included in the exclusive economic zone, in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State, or in the archipelagic waters of an archipelagic State.’ In the Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, Marine Regions makes available most of the maritime areas defined in the Law of the Sea Convention: Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), Territorial Seas (TS), Contiguous Zones (CZ), Internal Waters (IW), Archipelagic Waters (AW) and High Seas (HS).\r\n\r\nFlanders Marine Institute (2020). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: High Seas, version 1. Available online at http://www.marineregions.org/ https://doi.org/10.14284/418.\r\n\r\nMethodology: https://www.marineregions.org/eezmethodology.php"}
{"title":"Extended Continental Shelves (v01, world, 2022)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"ecs","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2022). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Extended Continental Shelves, version 1. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/577","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=8119","abstract":"This dataset represents the legal continental shelves beyond 200 nautical miles as submitted to/recommended by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) or deposited to the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS). In the Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, Marine Regions makes available most of the maritime areas defined in the Law of the Sea Convention: Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), Territorial Seas (TS), Contiguous Zones (CZ), Internal Waters (IW), Archipelagic Waters (AW) and High Seas (HS)."}
{"title":"Extended Continental Shelves - boundaries (v01, world, 2022)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"ecs_boundaries","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2022). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Extended Continental Shelves, version 1. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/577","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=8119","abstract":"This dataset represents the outer boundaries of the legal continental shelves beyond 200 nautical miles as submitted to/recommended by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) or deposited to the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS). In the Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, Marine Regions makes available most of the maritime areas defined in the Law of the Sea Convention: Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), Territorial Seas (TS), Contiguous Zones (CZ), Internal Waters (IW), Archipelagic Waters (AW) and High Seas (HS)."}
{"title":"IHO Sea Areas (v3)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"iho","license":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2018). IHO Sea Areas, version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/323","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=5444","abstract":"World seas represents the boundaries for 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. (http://www.marineregions.org/files/S23_1953.pdf)"}
{"title":"Global Oceans and Seas (v1)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"goas","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2021). Global Oceans and Seas, version 1. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/.","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/542","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=7842","abstract":"Global Oceans and Seas represents the boundaries between the 10 main oceans and seas (Arctic Ocean, North and South Atlantic Ocean, North and South Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Region, South China and Eastern Archipelagic Seas). The boundaries are largely based on the publication 'Limits of Oceans & Seas, Special Publication No. 23', published by the IHO in 1953. The dataset is available in World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS84)."}
{"title":"The intersect of the Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO areas (v4)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eez_iho","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2020). The intersect of the Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO sea areas, version 4. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/402","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6404","abstract":"The maritime boundaries provide a useful tool to limit national marine areas, but do not include information on marine regional and sub regional seas. This hampers the usage of these boundaries for implementing nature conservation strategies or analyzing marine biogeographic patterns. For example, a species occurring in the German EEZ can live in the North Sea, the Baltic Sea or Kattegat area. Each of these different marine areas has very distinct hydrological, oceanographic and ecological conditions."}
{"title":"Marine and land zones: the union of world country boundaries and EEZ's","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eez_land","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2020). Union of the ESRI Country shapefile and the Exclusive Economic Zones (version 3). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/403","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6406","abstract":"This dataset combines the boundaries of the world countries and the Exclusive Economic Zones of the world. It was created by combining the ESRI world country database and the EEZ version 11 dataset."}
{"title":"Global Biogeochemical Provinces (Longhurst)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"longhurst","license":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2009). Longhurst Provinces. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. Consulted on yyyy-mm-dd.","doi":"","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6613","abstract":"The dataset represents the division of the world oceans into provinces as defined by Longhurst (1995; 1998; 2006). The division has been based on the prevailing role of physical forcing as a regulator of phytoplankton distribution. The dataset contains the initial static boundaries developed at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada. Note that the boundaries of these provinces are not fixed in time and space, but are dynamic and move under seasonal and interannual changes in physical forcing. At the first level of reduction, Longhurst recognised four principal biomes: the Polar biome, the Westerlies biome, the Trade winds biome, and the Coastal biome. These four biomes are recognised in every major ocean basin. At the next level of reduction, the ocean basins are divided into provinces, roughly ten for each basin. These regions provide a template for data analysis or for making parameter assignments on a global scale. Please refer to Longhurst's publications when using these shapefiles."}
{"title":"Global contourite distribution","namespace":"World","layer":"cds","license":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute, Renard Centre of Marine Geology - Ugent (2019). Global contourite distribution database, version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/346","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6205","abstract":"Contourites are sedimentary units which are deposited or substantially reworked by alongslope bottom currents. They refer to the lithological unit and the terminology reflects the grain size of the sediment. Drifts refer to the same sedimentary unit as a contourite, but the word 'drift' reflects the morphological appearance of the sedimentary unit. Their terminology reflects the external shape, and the internal shape, which is determined by seismography. If drifts are clustered into a local area of certain size, we call the clustered sediment group a Contourite Depositional System (CDS).\r\nThese sedimentary units are generally, but not exclusively, found in the deep sea (>2000m depth). They are a useful tool for determining paleoceanic and paleoclimatic changes, since their distribution is linked to bottom currents. They have gained interest from the hydrocarbon industry, since accumulation of source rocks may be influenced by bottom currents. Slope instability is also an area of interest for further research.\r\n\r\nSource methodology:\r\nFor acquisition of the resulting information, several hundreds of papers on the relevant subject were read. Firstly, abstracts, introductions and conclusions were read for a general view on the article. Then further reading on the relevant chapters provided the presented information.\r\n\r\nIn 2013, 166 records with the place type Drift were added to the Marine Gazetteer. These are linked to one of the 24 Contourite Depositional Systems, if they make part of such a system. Each drift is also influenced by a water mass or current. This water mass or current determines the sedimentation, erosion and movements of these sediments.\r\n\r\nIn 2014, the list was extended with 81 records of the place type Drift. No Contourite Depositional Systems were added. The search process was identical to 2013, only this time a summary paper was the starting point (Rebesco et al., 2014). In this publication, the major drifts were listed with their most relevant sources along with them. These listed sources were then sought after and read. Not all papers were accessible at the time of this process, and thus it is advised to read these publications in the future as well."}
{"title":"Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 13 of MARPOL Annex VI (NOx emission control)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eca_reg13_nox","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2020). Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 13 of MARPOL Annex VI (NOx emission control). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/396","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6388","abstract":"Polygon data representing the Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 13 of MARPOL Annex VI (NOx emission control). The outline coordinates were processed in June 2019. The coastline was extracted from the ESRI Countries 2014. \r\nAvailable ECAs: \r\n1) North American area (regulation 13.6.1 and appendix VII of MARPOL Annex VI); \r\n2) United States Caribbean sea area (regulation 13.6.2 and appendix VII of MARPOL Annex VI)\r\n\r\nPreferred citation:\r\nFlanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium; (2020). Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 13 of MARPOL Annex VI (NOx emission control). Available online at http://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/396"}
{"title":"Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 14 of MARPOL Annex VI (SOx and particulate matter emission control)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"eca_reg14_sox_pm","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2020). Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 14 of MARPOL Annex VI (SOx and particulate matter emission control). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/397","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=6389","abstract":"Polygon data representing the Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 14 of MARPOL Annex VI (SOx and particulate matter emission control). The outline coordinates were processed in June 2019. The coastline was extracted from the ESRI Countries 2014. \r\nAvailable ECAs: \r\n1) Baltic Sea area (regulation 14.3.1 of MARPOL Annex VI and regulation 1.11.2 of MARPOL Annex I); \r\n2) North Sea area (regulation 14.3.1 of MARPOL Annex VI and regulation 1.14.6 of MARPOL Annex V); \r\n3) North American area (regulation 14.3.2 and appendix VII of MARPOL Annex VI); \r\n4) United States Caribbean sea area (regulation 14.3.3 and appendix VII of MARPOL Annex VI)\r\n\r\nPreferred citation:\r\nFlanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium; (2020). Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 14 of MARPOL Annex VI (SOx and particulate matter emission control). Available online at http://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/397"}
{"title":"UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites (v02, 2023)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"worldheritagemarineprogramme","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"Flanders Marine Institute (2013). World Marine Heritage Sites (version 1). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. Consulted on YYYY-MM-DD.","doi":"","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=8159","abstract":"This file contains the shapefile of the 50 marine sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List (as of 1 January 2023). Launched in 2005, the mission of the World Heritage Marine Programme is to establish effective conservation of existing and potential marine areas of Outstanding Universal Value to make sure they will be maintained and thrive for generations to come. In order to create the data, information from the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Programme and Protected Planet were collected and compiled.\r\n\r\nCitable as data publication\r\nUNESCO (2023). Boundaries of UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites (v02). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/592"}
{"title":"The 66 Large Marine Ecosystems of the World","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"lme","license":"","citation":"","doi":"","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=8160","abstract":"LMEs are natural regions of ocean space encompassing coastal waters from river basins and estuaries to the seaward boundary of continental shelves and the outer margins of coastal currents. They are relatively large regions of 200,000 km2 or greater, the natural boundaries of which are based on four ecological criteria: bathymetry, hydrography, productivity, and trophically related populations. The theory, measurement, and modeling relevant to monitoring the changing states of LMEs are imbedded in reports on ecosystems with multiple steady states, and on the pattern formation and spatial diffusion within ecosystems. The concept that critical processes controlling the structure and function of biological communities can best be addressed on a regional basis has been applied to the ocean by using LMEs as the distinct units for marine resources assessment, monitoring, and management."}
{"title":"Marine Ecoregions of the World - Ecoregions","namespace":"Ecoregions","layer":"ecoregions","license":"","citation":"Spalding, M. D. Fox, H. E. Allen, G. R. Davidson, N. Ferdana, Z. A. Finlayson, M. Halpern, B. S. Jorge, M. A. Lombana, A. Lourie, S. A., (2007). Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas. Bioscience 2007, VOL 57, numb 7, pages 573-584","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1641/B570707","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=8161","abstract":"MEOW is a biogeographic classification of the world's coasts and shelves. It is the first ever comprehensive marine classification system with clearly defined boundaries and definitions and was developed to closely link to existing regional systems. The ecoregions nest within the broader biogeographic tiers of Realms and Provinces.\r\n\r\nMEOW represents broad-scale patterns of species and communities in the ocean, and was designed as a tool for planning conservation across a range of scales and assessing conservation efforts and gaps worldwide. The current system focuses on coast and shelf areas (as this is where the majority of human activity and conservation action is focused) and does not consider realms in pelagic or deep benthic environment. It is hoped that parallel but distinct systems for pelagic and deep benthic biotas will be devised in the near future.\r\n\r\nThe project was led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), with broad input from a working group representing key NGO, academic and intergovernmental conservation partners.\r\n\r\n(source: WWF - Marine Ecoregions of the World)\r\n\r\nNote: The inland boundaries of the ecoregions extend far inland - a convention to ensure inclusion of any coastline and estuarine/lagoonal systems which may be derived from different map sources. For visualisations in the Marine Regions gazetteer, the areas inland have been removed from the shapefile. \r\n\r\nReferences: \r\nSpalding, M. D. Fox, H. E. Allen, G. R. Davidson, N. Ferdana, Z. A. Finlayson, M. Halpern, B. S. Jorge, M. A. Lombana, A. Lourie, S. A., (2007). Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas. Bioscience 2007, VOL 57; numb 7, pages 573-584. doi: 10.1641/B570707"}
{"title":"SeaVoX - Sea Areas Polygons (v18, 2021)","namespace":"MarineRegions","layer":"seavox_v18","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>","citation":"British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), United Kingdom (2021): Polygon dataset of the extent of water bodies from the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer (v18). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. ","doi":"https://doi.org/10.14284/540","imis":"https://www.vliz.be/imis?dasid=7928","abstract":"SeaVoX is a combined SeaDataNet and MarineXML vocabulary content governance group, it is moderated by BODC (https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/codes_and_formats/seavox/). This polygon data set defines the geographic extent of the terms specified by the SeaVoX vocabulary governance to describe coherent regions of the hydrosphere. It includes land masses enclosing freshwater bodies. The coastline data set used in the shapefile is taken from the World Vector Shoreline data set (scale 1:250,000). Reference for the data set: \"polygon data set of the extent of water bodies from the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer, http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/C19/current/\".\r\nThe data file follows a hierarchical structure with each region consisting of one or more polygons. This approach was adopted to avoid the need to have overlapping polygons in regions where a sea area included a number of sub-regions, for example the Mediterranean Sea includes the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea etc. The following gives the level in the structure at which particular regions, which consist of more than one polygon can be found. This level in the structure is given by the polygon's attributes. \r\nAttribute: REGION: ARCTIC OCEAN, ATLANTIC OCEAN,BALTIC SEA,INDIAN OCEAN,MEDITERRANEAN REGION,PACIFIC OCEAN,SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS,SOUTHERN OCEAN,MAINLAND NORTH AMERICAMAINLAND,EUROPE,MAINLAND ASIA \r\nAttribute: LEVEL_1: ARAFURA SEA,DAVIS SEA,GREENLAND SEA,GULF OF BOTHNIA,MEDITERRANEAN SEA,NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN,NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN,ROSS SEA,SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN,SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN,TIMOR SEA, LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKED \r\nAttribute: LEVEL_2: MEDITERRANEAN SEA, WESTERN BASIN,MEDITERRANEAN SEA,EASTERN BASIN,NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W),NORTHEAST PACIFIC OCEAN (180W),NORTHWEST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W),NORTHWEST PACIFIC OCEAN (180W),SOUTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (20W),SOUTHEAST PACIFIC OCEAN (140W),SOUTHWEST ATLANTIC OCEAN (20W),SOUTHWEST PACIFIC OCEAN (140W), LAKE ERIE, LAKE SUPERIOR, DETROIT RIVER, ST. CLAIR RIVER, LAKE ST. CLAIR, NIAGARA RIVER, LAKE HURON, LAKE ONTARIO, LAKE MICHIGAN, ST. MARYS RIVER \r\nAttribute: LEVEL_3: BERING SEA,BRISTOL CHANNEL,CELTIC SEA,CORAL SEA,ENGLISH CHANNEL,GULF OF MAINE,INNER SEAS OFF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND,IRISH SEA,JAPAN SEA,NORTH SEA,TASMAN SEA,YELLOW SEA \r\nAttribute: LEVEL_4: CARDIGAN BAY,DOVER STRAIT,FIRTH OF CLYDE,LIVERPOOL BAY,NORTH CHANNEL,POOLE BAY,SOLENT,SOLWAY FIRTH \r\nAttribute: SUB_REGION: This is the lowest level in the structure. \r\nThis version of the shapefile corresponds to version 18 of the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer. This version includes the following updates: addition of 1 new level 3 area (Gulf of Maine) and 1 new sub-region (Gulf of Maine)\r\nCredits\r\nPolygon data set of the extent of water bodies from the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer, http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/C19/current/\r\nUse limitations\r\nThe source of the data set should be attributed as: \"polygon data set of the extent of water bodies from the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer, http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/C19/current/\""}