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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area boundaries, 2019 update
This record comprises nine datasets related to the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) Marine Protected Area (MPA) review undertaken in 2019. The SGSSI MPA is one of the world's largest MPAs, and the 2019 review led to a significant extension of the MPA area to cover all of the SGSSI Maritime Zone totalling 1.24 million km2. Details of the new measures can be found within the legislation (SG Gazette No 1. Dated 31 January 2019: https://laws.gov.gs/gazettes), and the datasets here relate directly to these measures.
The following datasets are published here, for which further information can be found in the legislation linked above:
-The boundary of the SGSSI MPA/Maritime Zone
-No Take Zones for South Georgia
-No Take Zones for Clerke and Shag rocks
-No Take Zones for South Sandwich Islands
-No Take Zones for South Sandwich Islands trench
-No Take Zones for South of 60degS
-Benthic Closed Areas
-Pelagic Closed Areas
-Heavy Fuel Oil Prohibition line
The datasets are available as shapefiles.
This work has been funded directly by the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2026-01-16
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-01-16
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-01-16
- Date (released)
- 2026-01-16
- Edition
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1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/191bbdb4-0d36-40b0-ab23-8079f23a1479
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doi
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02138
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Please cite this item as: Gerrish, L., Belchier, M., & Field, E. (2026). South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area boundaries, 2019 update (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/191bbdb4-0d36-40b0-ab23-8079f23a1479
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No credit.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Antarctic Survey Gerrish, Laura Author Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Belchier, Mark Author British Antarctic Survey Field, Elena Author NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- Completed
- Theme
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Marine Protected Areas
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South Georgia
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conservation
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fishing
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protection
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- Place
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Scotia Sea Southern Ocean
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South Georgia Island
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Atlantic Ocean
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South Sandwich Islands
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
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- no limitations
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- License
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
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This data is supplied under Open Government Licence v.3
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- Other restrictions
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None.
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
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- Begin date
- 2019-05-24
- End date
- 2025-04-21
- Supplemental Information
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It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role European Petroleum Survey Group
Publisher
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
- Version
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6.18.3
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Distributor
- Units of distribution
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bytes
- Transfer size
- 3355443
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
http://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=191bbdb4-0d36-40b0-ab23-8079f23a1479 Get Data
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Methodology:
The data were created using Esri ArcMap, following parameters set out in the legislation (SG Gazette No 1. Dated 31 January 2019: https://laws.gov.gs/gazettes).
Areas were calculated using a custom equal area projection. This projection is an Albers Equal Area Conic projection with a central meridian of 34°W, standard parallels at 54°S and 60°S, and the latitude of origin at 57°S. The spheroid is WGS84. These calculations are recorded in the 'area_km2' attribute for each boundary feature.
Data collection:
Shapefiles were created using Esri ArcMap.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 191bbdb4-0d36-40b0-ab23-8079f23a1479 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-01-16
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003(E)
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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