Description
These boundaries represent the territorial sea for U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands, including Hawaii, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, as well as the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands of Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island.
Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most twelve nautical miles (12 nmi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The territorial sea is regarded as the sovereign territory of the state, although foreign ships are allowed innocent passage through it; this sovereignty also extends to the airspace over and seabed below.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
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| GeoExplorer | Unknown | This URL provides a viewer for this dataset. | Open resource |
| GeoServer | Unknown | This URL provides access to this dataset via GeoServer, which offers multiple output formats and an OpenLayers viewer. | Open resource |
| OGC-WMS-C | WMS | Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service - Cached (WMS-C). Use of WMS-C is similar to traditional WMS but with the addition of the "tiled=true" parameter, which triggers GeoServer to pull map tiles from GeoWebCache if they have been previously generated. This can dramatically improve performance, especially for larger datasets. Supported map formats include JPEG and PNG. Supported info formats include GeoJSON, GML, HTML, and plain text. | Open resource |
| OGC-WFS | WFS | Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service (WFS). Supported WFS versions include 1.0.0, 1.1.0, and 2.0.0. Supported output formats include CSV, GeoJSON, GeoJSON-P, GML, KML, and Shapefile (Zipped). | Open resource |
| OGC-WMS | WMS | Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service (WMS). Supported WMS versions include 1.1.1 and 1.3.0. Supported map formats include AtomPub, GeoRSS, GeoTIFF, GIF, JPEG, KML/KMZ, PDF, PNG, SVG, and TIFF. Supported info formats include GeoJSON, GeoJSON-P, GML, HTML, and plain text. | Open resource |
| Web Resource | Lotus Organizer | Open resource | |
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| Web Resource | Lotus Organizer | Open resource | |
| Web Resource | Lotus Organizer | Open resource | |
| Web Resource | Lotus Organizer | Open resource | |
| Web Resource | Lotus Organizer | Open resource | |
| Web Resource | Lotus Organizer | Open resource | |
| PacIOOS Voyager (Google Maps API) | Unknown | This URL provides a viewer and/or data access for this dataset. | Open resource |
| PacIOOS Voyager (Google Maps API) | Unknown | This URL provides a viewer and/or data access for this dataset. | Open resource |
| GeoServer | Unknown | This URL provides access to this dataset via GeoServer, which offers multiple output formats and an OpenLayers viewer. | Open resource |
| OGC-WFS | WFS | Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service (WFS). Supported WFS versions include 1.0.0, 1.1.0, and 2.0.0. Supported output formats include CSV, GeoJSON, GeoJSON-P, GML, KML, and Shapefile (Zipped). | Open resource |
| OGC-WMS | WMS | Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service (WMS). Supported WMS versions include 1.1.1 and 1.3.0. Supported map formats include AtomPub, GeoRSS, GeoTIFF, GIF, JPEG, KML/KMZ, PDF, PNG, SVG, and TIFF. Supported info formats include GeoJSON, GeoJSON-P, GML, HTML, and plain text. | Open resource |
| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource | |
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| Web Page | HTML | limits.html | Open resource |
Tags
- american samoa
- baker island
- boundaries
- central pacific ocean
- commonwealth of the northern mariana islands (cnmi)
- continent
- country boundaries
- earth science
- geographic region
- guam
- hawaii
- hawaiian islands
- howland island
- human dimensions
- jarvis island
- johnston atoll
- kingman reef
- micronesia
- north america
- northern mariana islands
- ocean
- oceania
- pacific islands ocean observing system
- pacific ocean
- pacioos
- palmyra atoll
- political divisions
- polynesia
- south pacific ocean
- united states of america
- wake island
- western pacific ocean