Galloway Dark Skies Park

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Last updated:
02 September 2020
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Summary

A Dark Sky Park is a place with exceptionally dark night skies, a place where people have committed to keeping those skies dark, by controlling light pollution.

In November 2009, the International Dark-sky Association designated Galloway Forest Park as only the fourth Dark Sky Park in the world and the first in the UK.

But that's not all. The Galloway Park is REALLY dark - a Gold Tier Dark Skies park. Very few people live in the 300 square miles of forest and hills in the park so nights really are black - apart from the stars! Forestry Commission Scotland and the people of the park are committed to keeping it that way.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2020-09-02
Access contraints
No limitations on public access
Harvest GUID
53d2538d-8b30-44da-94a5-5d061914fc08
Extent
Latitude: 60.87° to 54.63°
Longitude: -8.80° to -0.71°
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
Dataset reference date
2009-11-01 (creation)
2015-10-09 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
Forestry Commission (owner); Forest Research (publisher)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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