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 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. The data shows the boundaries of all Historic Marine Protected Areas in Scotland. You should refer to the Historic Marine Protected Area site documentation for exact locations of individual boundary points and supplementary information.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://inspire.hes.scot/AtomService/DATA/HMPA_scotland.zip

protocol: FILE:GEO

name: ESRI Shapefile Download

description: Download zip file with Historic Marine Protected Areas shapefile, layer file and metadata

https://inspire.hes.scot/arcgis/services/HES/Historic_Marine_Protected_Areas/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

protocol: OGC:WMS

description: WMS service for Historic Marine Protected Areas

https://inspire.hes.scot/arcgis/services/HES/Historic_Marine_Protected_Areas/MapServer/WFSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS

protocol: OGC:WFS

description: WFS service for Historic Marine Protected Areas

Unique resource identifier

code

HESHMPA

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700

Additional information source

Historic Environment Scotland is a Non Departmental Public Body responsible to Scottish Ministers for safeguarding the nation's built heritage and promoting its understanding and enjoyment. Its responsibilities for heritage include the designation of Historic Marine Protected Areas

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine Conservation Area

Archaeology

Protected Area

originating controlled vocabulary

title

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2012-07-20

Keyword set

keyword value

Protected Sites

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET- INSPIRE Themes

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine Environment

Marine Archaeology

originating controlled vocabulary

title

IPSV-Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2006-04-03

Keyword set

keyword value

marine protected areas

designation

Keyword set

keyword value

Protected sites

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-7.75714

East bounding longitude

-0.53202

North bounding latitude

61.46459

South bounding latitude

54.53297

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2013-03-18

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2013-03-18

date type

revision

effective date

2016-10-28

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

These positions were obtained by surveys from various sources including: amateur divers and archaeologists who discovered the wrecks and marine archaeological surveys commissioned by the UK and Historic Scotland following transfer of responsibilities to them around 1991. 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 RCAHMS (www.rcahms.gov.uk). The user should refer to the Historic Marine Protected Area site documentation for exact locations of individual boundary points and supplementary information.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected Sites - Guidelines v 3.1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-05-03

degree

true

explanation

This dataset is not in a conformed format (such as GML). However, it conforms to projection and metadata. Vertical data in metadata is currently from Chart Datum. The temporal extent of the data is not ended as this is a live dataset, which may change in the future. The version date of the data can be found under Temporal Extent.

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

true

explanation

This Spatial Data Service set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If this data is reproduced it must be attributed with the following: Contains Historic Environment Scotland and Ordnance Survey data © Historic Environment Scotland - Scottish Charity No. SC045925 © Crown copyright and database right [year]

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

GIS Officer

organisation name

Historic Environment Scotland

full postal address

Longmore House, Salisbury Place

Edinburgh

EH9 1SH

United Kingdom

telephone number

0131 668 8832

email address

GIEnquiries@hes.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

contact position

GIS Officer

organisation name

Historic Environment Scotland

full postal address

Longmore House, Salisbury Place

Edinburgh

EH9 1SH

United Kingdom

telephone number

0131 668 8832

email address

GIEnquiries@hes.scot

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

GIS Officer

organisation name

Historic Environment Scotland

full postal address

Longmore House, Salisbury Place

Edinburgh

EH9 1SH

United Kingdom

telephone number

0131 668 8832

email address

GIEnquiries@hes.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-09-24T08:24:05

Metadata language

eng