oce (version 0.1-76)

coastline.world: World coastline at coarse resolution

Description

World coastline at 1:5000000 resolution.

Usage

data(coastline.world)

source

http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast/getcoast.html

Details

The longitudes are in the range from -180 to 180 degrees, i.e. western longitudes have negative values.

References

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg_coastline/

See Also

Coastlines may be read with read.coastline, or created with as.coastline; see these for details of the data format. Other coastline datasets provided with oce are coastline.hal and coastline.maritimes.