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World Heritage areas – spatial metadata

Data structure

world-heritage-area

Field name	Type	Bytes	Label	Description
AreaID	Text (UTF-8 encoded)	62	AreaID	The unique identifier used in WetlandSummary
Name	Text (UTF-8 encoded)	44	Name	The name of the area used in WetlandSummary, excluding the area type
FullName	Text (UTF-8 encoded)	64	Full name	The name of the area used in WetlandSummary, including the area type
Wetlands	Text (UTF-8 encoded)	118	Wetland summary information	The URL of the WetlandSummary page of this area
KML	Text (UTF-8 encoded)	156	KML	The URL of a simplified KML file depicting this area
TotalArea	Double (8 byte floating point)	8	Area (km²)	The total area in km²
SECTION	Text (UTF-8 encoded)	218	SECTION
SOURCE	Text (UTF-8 encoded)	14	SOURCE

Modifications

The World Heritage areas layer used by WetlandSummary is based on the source layers below, with the following modifications:

Name is the value of the NAME field
Clipped 1 feature extending partially beyond the Queensland border (some may be due to minor misalignment at the border)
Dissolved 18 source features into 5 World Heritage areas

Source layer: World Heritage Areas of Queensland

(world-heritage-area/qpws-sis-qld-world-heritage-area.shp.xml)

Esri

Creation Date: 2022-10-24
Creation Time: 11:46:34
Modification Date: 2023-07-28
Modification Time: 02:09:26

Data Id Info

Id Citation

Title

World Heritage Areas of Queensland

Date

Creation date: 2022-10-27

Cit Resp Party

Contact—individual name: Leigh Harris
Contact—organization name: Department of Environment and Science
Contact—position name: Executive Director, Parks Services Branch
Role: details available on request

Cit Resp Party

Contact—individual name: Leigh Harris
Contact—organization name: Department of Environment and Science
Contact—position name: Executive Director, Parks Services Branch
Role: details available on request

Cit Resp Party

Contact—individual name: Shaun Kolomeitz
Contact—organization name: Department of Environment and Science
Contact—position name: Manager, Spatial Services
Role: details available on request

Resource purpose/summary

World heritage sites that are nominated for World Heritage listing are inscribed on the list after they have been carefully assessed as representing the best examples of the world's cultural and natural heritage. Australia currently has 20 properties on the World Heritage List of which Queensland has five.

Additional human language abstract/description

Combining the Wet Tropics Management Agency WHA with other exceptional heritage areas across the state of Queensland.

The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area lies between Townsville and Cooktown on the north-east coast of Queensland and covers an area of approximately 8940m^2. The area is composed of mostly public land, the majority of which is held in national park tenure. This dataset contains all of the sections that make up the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area as well as

The Great Barrier Reef along the Queensland coast

K’gari (Fraser Island)

Gondwana Rainforests of the border ranges of South Eastern (Queensland section)

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh section)

Search Keys

Keyword: EPBC
Keyword: OSS
Keyword: UNESCO
Keyword: Heritage
Keyword: World Heritage
Keyword: Queensland

Theme Keys

Keyword: EPBC, OSS, UNESCO, Heritage, World Heritage, Queensland

Id Po C

Contact—individual name: Shaun Kolomeitz
Contact—organization name: Department of Environment and Science
Contact—position name: Manager Spatial Services
Role: details available on request

Res Const

Consts

Security use limitations: This material is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/">Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia</a> licence.<br /> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" title="Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia License" style="border: 0;" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/au/88x31.png" /></a><br /> The Department of Environment and Science requests attribution in the following manner:<br /> © State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Science) 2020. Updated data available at http://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/catalogue//.

Theme Keys

Thesa Name

Title: ANZLIC Search Words

Keyword

BOUNDARIES, BOUNDARIES Administrative, HERITAGE World, HERITAGE

Dist Info

details available on request

Entity and Attribute Information

details available on request

Dq Info

Data Lineage

Lineage statement, a general explanation: For the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area the areas defined in this dataset are based on the 1:50000 scale WTQ plans drafted in 1991-92. The areas in this dataset were realigned to current cadastral information published 5 September 2022.

Data are derived by digital cadastre at the time of inscription, and potentially updated as required to reflect improvements in boundary accuracy.

This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (n.d.) World Heritage areas – spatial metadata, WetlandInfo website, accessed 30 August 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/facts-maps/get-mapping-help/metadata/world-heritage-area/