Updated: 27 Jul 2004

Australian Land Tenure 1993 Products

• User Guide [PDF 315 Kb (Get PDF Reader)]
• Metadata
• Free Download
• Australian Land Tenure paper Map (for purchase)

• Product Specifications

Public land belongs to the crown and includes property which is reserved, owned for public purposes or vacant. It typically includes reserves for nature conservation, forestry, marine, water, mining, defence, vacant and other crown land. Private land makes up the largest part of Australia and can be freehold land or Crown leasehold land. Aboriginal land may be freehold, leasehold, Crown reserve or native title land.

Contains boundary and attribute information for parcels of public, private and Aboriginal lands in Australia. Data are sourced primarly from government gazette notices, cadastral maps and plans.

A nominal scale of around 1:5 million and a minimum 50 square kilometre threshold limit for land parcels was used in the generalisation of this product from the National Public and Aboriginal Lands data. Data is suitable for GIS applications.

Product Specifications

Coverage: Australia.

Currency: Mid 1993

Coordinates: Geographical

Datum: AGD66

Projection: Simple Conic on two standard parallels 18S and 36S

Format: ArcInfo Export, ArcView Shapefile, MapInfo mid/mif and AS2482

Medium: Printed map (flat and folded); Data - Free online and CD-ROM (fee applies)

Forward Program: Under review.