39 High Seas

Modified

August 26, 2025

World High Seas (Areas outside EEZs)

39.1 Key Attributes

Layer name	high_seas
Unique id field	mrgid
Short description	World High Seas v1
Source	https://www.marineregions.org/downloads.php
Citation	Flanders Marine Institute (2024). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: High Seas, version 2. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/696.
Attribution	Copyright Flanders Marine Institute - http://marineregions.org
Last updated	2024-10-10
License	CC-BY

39.2 Description

The area of the seas that is not included in the exclusive economic zone, in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State, or in the archipelagic waters of an archipelagic State.

From Marine Regions

39.3 Data access

GCS

Original: gs://pipe-regions-layers-us-central1/high_seas/original/World_High_Seas_v2_20241010.zip
Normalized: gs://pipe-regions-layers-us-central1/high_seas/World_High_Seas_v2_20241010.shp.zip

Bigquery

Normalized: world-fishing-827.pipe_regions_layers.World_High_Seas_v2_20241010
Processed for S2 lookup:: world-fishing-827.pipe_regions_layers.World_High_Seas_v2_20241010_S2_10

39.4 Old Versions

Citation: Flanders Marine Institute (2020). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: High Seas, version 1. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/ https://doi.org/10.14284/418

39.5 Data access