Large Marine Domains of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone

The Large Marine Domains dataset contains a set of regional marine planning units for Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone developed in collaboration with the National Oceans Office (NOO) and the CSIRO Division of Marine Research in 1998. These planning units are a key requirement for supporting Australia's Oceans Policy announced by the Commonwealth government in December 1998. The boundaries define areas surrounding continental Australia and the external territories including Cocos Keeling Islands, Christmas Island, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, Macquarie Island, Heard and McDonald Islands, and the Australian Antarctic Territory. Boundaries have undergone a series of changes since their inception. See the Lineage for more details on these changes. Dataset including the boundaries of thirteen marine regions on the continental shelf of Australia, identified in the draft report 'Large Marine Domains Of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zones' (CSIRO 1998). The purpose of this study was to create a hierarchical framework of biological regionalisations at the provincial level derived largely from distributional data for endemic fish species. The previous study, 'Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for Australia' (CSIRO 1996) of the shelf region (coast to the shelf-break at the 200m isobath) forms the basis of the current Large Marine Domain (LMD) regions on the shelf. The regions are designated Northern; North-eastern; Eastern-central; South-eastern; South-western; Western-central; North-western; Norfolk; Sunda; Macquarie; Kerguelen; Australian Antarctic; and South Tasman Rise. The National Oceans Office has, to a large degree adopted these Large Marine Domain boundaries to form administrative boundaries for marine mapping and planning purposes.

大型海洋区域数据集（Large Marine Domains dataset）收录了1998年与国家海洋局（National Oceans Office, NOO）及澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织海洋研究部（CSIRO Division of Marine Research）合作开发的澳大利亚专属经济区（Exclusive Economic Zone）区域海洋规划单元集。此类规划单元是支撑澳大利亚联邦政府1998年12月发布的《澳大利亚海洋政策》的核心必备要件。其边界覆盖澳大利亚大陆周边及海外领地海域，包括科科斯（基林）群岛、圣诞岛、诺福克岛、豪勋爵岛、麦夸里岛、赫德岛和麦克唐纳群岛，以及澳大利亚南极领地。自初始版本问世以来，边界历经多轮调整，相关调整详情可查阅“数据沿袭（Lineage）”章节。
该数据集包含澳大利亚大陆架上13个海洋区域的边界，相关内容出自CSIRO 1998年发布的草案报告《澳大利亚专属经济区大型海洋区域》（Large Marine Domains Of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zones）。本研究的核心目标是构建一套省级尺度的生物区划层级框架，其构建主要基于特有鱼类物种的分布数据。此前1996年CSIRO发布的《澳大利亚近海及海岸临时区划》（Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for Australia）以大陆架区域（海岸线至200米等深线的陆架坡折带）为研究范围，该成果是当前陆架区大型海洋区域（Large Marine Domain, LMD）的划定基础。本次划定的区域分别为：北部海域、东北海域、中东部海域、东南部海域、西南部海域、中西部海域、西北部海域、诺福克海域、巽他海域、麦夸里海域、凯尔盖朗海域、澳大利亚南极海域以及南塔斯曼海隆海域。
国家海洋局已在较大程度上采用该大型海洋区域边界，作为海洋制图与规划工作的行政边界。