Shapefiles
Exclusive Economic Zones Boundaries (EEZ)
- World EEZ v8 (2014-02-28, 65 MB) - downloads: 150
[Download] [Low res] [KML] [Change history] [Known issues] - World EEZ v7 (2012-11-20, 67 MB) - downloads: 5200
[Download] [Low res] [KML] [Change history] [Known issues] - World EEZ v6.1 (2011-05-12, 84 MB) - downloads: 5656
[Download] [Low res] [KML] [Change history] [Known issues] - World EEZ v6 (2011-03-30, 84 MB) - downloads: 6463
[Download] [Low res] [KML] [Change history] [Known issues] - World EEZ v5 (2009-10-01, 86 MB) - downloads: 3813
[Download] [KML] [Change history] [Known issues] - World EEZ v4 (2009-08-11, 86 MB) - downloads: 625
[Download] [KML] [Change history] - World EEZ v3 (2009-04-30, 85 MB) - downloads: 612
[Download] [KML] [Change history] - World EEZ v2 (2008-10-31, 4 MB) - downloads: 1166
[Download] [Change history] - World EEZ v1 (2006-01-26, 4 MB) - downloads: 1745
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IHO Sea Areas
Marineregions: intersect of EEZ's and IHO areas
- Version 2 - 2012 (4.96MB) [Known issues] (created from EEZ version 7, update will follow soon)
- Version 1 - 2010 (5.55MB)
Marine and land zones: the union of world country boundaries and EEZ's
- Version 1 - 2012 (2,006kb) [Known issues] (created from EEZ version 7, update will follow soon)
World Marine Heritage Sites
FAO Fishing Areas
Large Marine Ecosystems of the World
- Go to LME-website
Longhurst Biogeographical Provinces
ICES Ecoregions
ICES Statistical areas
OSPAR Boundaries
Marine Ecoregions of the World, MEOW (Spalding et al., 2007)
Continental margins between 140m and 3500m depth (IFREMER - COMARGE, 2009)
The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer
- v14 2013 (63.7 MB)
- v13 2012 (59.6 MB)
- v12 2012 (59.4 MB)
- v11 2012 (59.5 MB)
- v9 2011 (51.5 MB)
- v8 2011 (51.5 MB)
- 2010 (48.4 MB)
- 2009 (48.4 MB)
Statistics on Marbound and IHO (Costello et al., 2011)
TDWG Geography shapefiles
- More information and the shapefiles can be found on Kew GIS Unit
GEBCO Gazetteer of undersea feature names
- More information and the files can be found on http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/undersea_feature_names.
General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO)
- More information and the grid files can be found on www.gebco.net
ETOPO1 Global Relief Model
- More information and the grid files can be found on www.ngdc.noaa.gov
The NAFO Convention Area
- More information and the files can be found on http://www.nafo.int/about/frames/area.html
Terrestrial Ecoregional Boundaries Shapefile (TNC)
- More information and the files can be found on http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/ecoregional.shapefile
Global contourite distribution Shapefile
- Contourite distributions (157kb)
- More information and the files can be found on http://www.contourites.org
