Fiji, 1981, Maritime Boundaries, Dataset

This record holds, GIS layers that contains poly-lines and point features that represent the maritime boundaries of the Fiji Islands. This includes a gazetted polyline representing the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone over which Fiji has sovereign rights, for the purposes of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources of the seabed, subsoil and superjacent waters. Included here are point shapes representing the archipelagic straight baselines (base points) for Fiji,Rotuma and Ceva I Ra. The Secretariat has updated these baselines against more recent and accurate information supplied by the SOPAC Division, Maritime boundary mapping and survey project team. The Pacific Islands Regional Maritime Boundaries data release contains the revised straight baselines as are currently proclaimed. This dataset is currently been updated.
The record also contains digital information about treaties.
These baselines are held at the Secretariat on behalf of the Fiji Islands Government and can be downloaded from the appropriate link under the Distribution Info section.These GIS layers are a unique delineation of maritime boundaries of the different member Pacific Island countries. These baselines can be used for diverse purposes by government agencies, surveyors, environmentalist, mariners and other individuals. These applications include biogeography for the creation of species distribution lists per country, determination of legal catch area for fishing, marine transportation, determination of pollution and other environmental issues within a coastal state , regulate disturbance of sea floor activities, educational purposes and a variety of other applications.Fiji comprises over 800 islands and islets of which about 110 are inhabited. The islands lie between15° South and 22° South and 175° West and 177° West. The largest islands are Viti Levu, area 10,386sq. km, and Vanua Levu, area 5,534 sq. km. The total land area of Fiji is 18,272 sq. km.