Historic Marine Protected Areas

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Summary

Historic Marine Protected Areas Historic MPAs are designated under Section 67 of the Marine Scotland Act 2010 to protect marine historic assets (e.g historic shipwrecks) of national importance within Scottish territorial waters. The HistoricMarineProtected Area dataset comprises the boundaries of all Historic Marine Protected Areas in Scotland. The purpose of this dataset is to allow the user to identify the boundaries of Historic Marine Protected Areas in Scotland. The user should refer to the Historic Marine Protected Area Order documentation for exact locations of individual boundary points and supplementary information. The Scottish Government is committed to clean, healthy, safe, productive, biologically diverse marine and coastal environments, managed to meet the long-term needs of people and nature. This includes protecting and, where appropriate, enhancing our most important historic wrecks and other marine heritage sites in such a way that they can be valued and understood. One way Scottish Ministers can achieve this is by designating nationally important marine historic assets in Scottish territorial waters as Historic Marine Protected Areas under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2019-12-09
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Harvest GUID
e3fe864d-3882-43dd-9b6f-d121304c584d
Extent
Latitude: 60.9169° to 55.5626°
Longitude: -8.0306° to 2.9117°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Dataset reference date
2013-03-18 (publication)
2013-03-18 (creation)
2016-10-28 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
Historic Environment Scotland (originator, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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If this data is reproduced it must be attributed with the following: Contains Historic Environment Scotland and Ordnance Survey data &copy Historic Environment Scotland - Scottish Charity No. SC045925 &copy Crown copyright and database right [year]