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.

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Identification info

Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
2013-03-18
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2016-10-28
Identifier
HESHMPA
Presentation form
Digital map
Point of contact
  Historic Environment Scotland - ( GIS Officer )
Longmore House, Salisbury Place , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH9 1SH , United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
Distributor
  Historic Environment Scotland - ( GIS Officer )
Longmore House, Salisbury Place , Edinburgh , EH9 1SH , United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

  • Marine Conservation Area

  • Archaeology

  • Protected Area

GEMET- INSPIRE Themes

  • Protected Sites

IPSV-Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary

  • Marine Environment

  • Marine Archaeology
Keywords

  • marine protected areas

  • designation

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Protected sites
Other constraints
Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints

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]
Spatial representation type
Vector
Distance
1  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Distance
5  Metre
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
Begin
2013-03-18
 
Temporal extent
 
Additional information

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
 
Reference system identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1.0

WMS

1.3.0

WFS

2.0.0
 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

FILE:GEO

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

ESRI Shapefile Download

OGC:WMS

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

OGC:WFS

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

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected Sites - Guidelines v 3.1.0
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.
Degree
true
Conformity
Conformity
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation

This Spatial Data Service set is conformant with the INSPIRE

Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and

services
Degree
true
Statement

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.
 

Metadata

File identifier
106c9bc8-a597-4ca4-8f12-437918c87639 XML
Metadata Language
English
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2020-09-24T08:24:05
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Organisation name

Historic Environment Scotland
Position name

GIS Officer
Voice

0131 668 8832
Delivery point

Longmore House, Salisbury Place
City

Edinburgh
Administrative area

Scotland
Postal code

EH9 1SH
Country

United Kingdom
Electronic mail address

GIEnquiries@hes.sco GIEnquiries@hes.scot

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  Historic Environment Scotland - ( GIS Officer )
Longmore House, Salisbury Place , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH9 1SH , United Kingdom
0131 668 8832
 
 
 

Overviews

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Protected sites

Publishing Body

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Associated resources (if any)

Not available