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Social Data - National Public and Aboriginal Lands (NPAL) pre-1998 PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 18 January 2010 09:59

Description

National Public and Aboriginal Lands contains data about boundary greater than 40 hectares, this includes the attribute information of parcels of public, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land in Australia.  Areas smaller than 40 hectares are incorporated as point locations (includes nature reserves, forests and Aboriginal land).

Categories include:
  • nature conservation reserves
  • forestry reserves
  • Aboriginal land
  • water reserves
  • defence reserves; and
  • mining reserves.
 
Attribute information includes (as applicable to the type of reserve):
-          State and reserve name
-          reserve type
-          administering authority
-          size (in hectares)
-          identification number; and
-          dates of original proclamation and latest update.
 
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Geoscience Australia
 
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SUMMARY
Type of data
GIS Dataset
Function
GIS, administrative boundaries, boundaries, land use
Format
ArcInfo Export, ArcView Shapefile and MapInfo mid/mif
Licence
Use reproduce, adapt and distribute data and derivatives to end-users. Cost free download
Coverage
Australia, including all external territories
Resolution/Scale
1:250,000
Spatial Extent
N Lat :-7.0    W Long :40.0
S Lat :-70.0    E Long :175.0
Coordinate System and Datum
Geographical, AGD66
Source
Geoscience Australia
 

 

 
Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 November 2010 10:04