Identification

Title

Historic Marine Protected Areas

Abstract

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 Historic_Marine_Protected 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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/spatialdownloads

description: A link to the web service or dataset

Unique resource identifier

code

HESHMPA

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

structure

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Keyword set

keyword value

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2008-01-06

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009-11-16

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2012-02-14

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.0306

East bounding longitude

2.9117

North bounding latitude

60.9169

South bounding latitude

55.5626

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2009-06-18

code identifying the extent

Northern North Sea

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2009-06-18

code identifying the extent

Minches & Western Scotland

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2009-06-18

code identifying the extent

Scottish Continental Shelf

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1954-01-01

code identifying the extent

Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1954-01-01

code identifying the extent

North Atlantic Ocean

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1954-01-01

code identifying the extent

North Sea

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-01

code identifying the extent

unknown

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-05-16

code identifying the extent

VIIa

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-05-16

code identifying the extent

IVb

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-05-16

code identifying the extent

VIa

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-05-16

code identifying the extent

IVa

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-05-16

code identifying the extent

Vb1b

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-05-16

code identifying the extent

Vb2

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2013-03-18

End position

2013-03-18

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2013-03-18

date type

creation

effective date

2013-03-18

date type

revision

effective date

2016-10-28

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

Customised boundary created by Historic Environment Scotland's Scheduled Monument, Battlefield and Marine Team. These positions were obtained by surveys from various sources including amateur divers and archaeologists who discovered the wrecks, and by marine archaeological surveys commissioned by the UK and, following transfer or responsibilities to Historic Scotland (HS) around 1991, by HS. Government-commissioned surveys were carried out from 1986-2003 by the Archaeological Diving Unit (University of St Andrews) and from 2003 to 2013 by Wessex Archaeology. A variety of position-fixing equipment will have been used to generate the positions, most recently differential GPS equipment. Reports of this work have been archived with National Record of the Historic Environment.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-12-19

degree

true

explanation

Conforms to MEDIN, INSPIRE, UK GEMINI 2.1 and UK MIDAS HERITAGE metadata standards.

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

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]

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No other restrictions. See constraints on usage below.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

GIS Officer

organisation name

Historic Environment Scotland

email address

GIEnquiries@hes.scot

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

GIS Officer

organisation name

Historic Environment Scotland

email address

GIEnquiries@hes.scot

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

GIS Officer

organisation name

Historic Environment Scotland

email address

GIEnquiries@hes.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2017-02-22

Metadata language