Limits of oceans and seas in digitized, machine readable form@en

This dataset is the digitized version of the printed \"Limits of Oceans and Seas\" (IHO, 1953). The report describes the boundaries of 148 oceans and seas. The given positions were typed into a spreadsheet and were completed to a right ordered polygon by hand using Google Earth. The dataset consists of five columns. The first column contains the name of the ocean or sea, column 2 and 3 contain the position of each polygon point (latitude, longitude). Column 4 contains an area index, column 5 a polygon index. These two indices structurize the dataset. […]