Brief description
The dataset contains spatial locations in point format as a representation of Immigration Detention Facilities in Australia. Definition: Immigration detention centres primarily accommodate people who have overstayed their visa, breached their visa conditions and had their visa cancelled or have been refused entry at Australia's entry ports.Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeededSource Information:
The primary information source used to locate the immigration detention facilities was Australian Government's Department of Immigration and Citizenship's website.
- Australian Government Department of Immigration and Citizenship
- http://www.immi.gov.au/managing-australias-borders/detention/facilities/
A list of immigration detention centres with names and detailed address information was obtained from the above websites.
GA imagery and publicly available information was used to confirm or correct the locations obtained from the above sources.
Issued: 2012
Modified: 06 03 2017
text: westlimit=105.575352; southlimit=-37.776549; eastlimit=150.988594; northlimit=-10.471354; projection=GDA94 (EPSG:4283)
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Spreadsheet (csv)
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ESRI Geodatabase (gdb)
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https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/74769/ImmigrationDetentionFacilities_v2.gdb.zip
Google Earth (kmz)
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https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/74769/ImmigrationDetentionFacilities_v2.kmz
Spreadsheet (xlsx)
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https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/74769/ImmigrationDetentionFacilities_v2.xlsx
Product Map (jpg)
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Product Metadata (pdf)
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https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/74769/ImmigrationDetentionFacilitiesMetadata_v2.pdf
- DOI : 10.4225/25/543B51D4E0B25
- URI : pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/74769
- global : cc365600-294c-597d-e044-00144fdd4fa6