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At the moment the Marine Regions lists and provides geographical relations on more than 78,213 place names, representing 63,519 marine geographic places. The scope of Marine Regions is global, but there is at the moment a geographic focus on European, North American and Antarctic marine waters.

Geographic distribution of geographic objects from Marine Regions (October 2018)


Regional checklists (16,476 records)

North Sea
Placenames Southern Bight of the North Sea and Scheldt Estuary (2,731 records)
Antarctica
SCAR Composite Gazetteer (more info) (8,298 records)
Four Maps representing Belgian toponyms in Antarctica (more info) (147 records)
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer (more info) (511 records)
Australian Antarctic Gazetteer (more info) (30 records)
Black Sea
GIS meteorology of Azov and Black Seas author Vladimir Belokopytov (1,859 records)
European seas
Marine Natura 2000 sites (more info) (2,900 records)

Global checklists (20,050 records)

IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of undersea feature names (more info) (8,696 records)
US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) (more info) (11,665 records)
ASFA thesaurus (more info) (720 records)
Distribution records from WoRMS (10,583 records)
World Marine Heritage sites (more info) (51 records)

Marine Boundaries (2,446 records)

Limits of Oceans and Seas, Special Publication 23, 3rd Edition 1953, published by the International Hydrographic Organization (more info) (165 records)
Exclusive Economic Zones (more info) (273 records)
Marine Regions Standard: an Intersect of the IHO Sea Areas and the Maritime Boundaries database (more info) (863 records)
Large Marine Ecosystems of the World (more info) (76 records)
FAO Major Fishing Areas, UN Atlas of the Oceans (more info) (38 records)
Ecological geography of the Sea (Longhurst, 1998) (more info) (115 records)
Marine Ecoregions of the World, MEOW (Spalding et al., 2007) (more info) (319 records)
ICES Ecoregions (more info) (23 records)
The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer (more info) (320 records)
The NAFO Convention Area (more info) (181 record)
(Historical) fishing areas of Belgian sea fisheries (more info) (30 records)
IOS Regions (43 records)

Database growth Marine Gazetteer

YearGeoObjects
200514,152
200614,436
200716,742
200820,256
200921,819
201022,523
201123,538
201225,399
201331,863
201435,024
201547,449
201648,470
201748,935
201857,307
201961,370
202062,113
202162,276
202262,981
202363,231
202463,519
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