Historic Marine Protected Areas
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.
dataset
https://inspire.hes.scot/AtomService/DATA/HMPA_scotland.zip
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name: ESRI Shapefile Download
description: Download zip file with Historic Marine Protected Areas shapefile, layer file and metadata
protocol: OGC:WMS
description: WMS service for Historic Marine Protected Areas
protocol: OGC:WFS
description: WFS service for Historic Marine Protected Areas
HESHMPA
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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
environment
oceans
Marine Conservation Area
Archaeology
Protected Area
publication
2012-07-20
Protected Sites
publication
2008-06-01
Marine Environment
Marine Archaeology
publication
2006-04-03
marine protected areas
designation
Protected sites
publication
2008-06-01
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creation
2013-03-18
revision
2016-10-28
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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.
publication
2010-05-03
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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.
publication
2010-12-08
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This Spatial Data Service set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
ESRI Shapefile
1.0
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]
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United Kingdom
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Historic Environment Scotland
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Edinburgh
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United Kingdom
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