coastline.world {oce} | R Documentation |
World coastline at 1:5000000 resolution.
data(coastline.world)
The longitudes are in the range from -180 to 180 degrees, i.e. western longitudes have negative values.
Dan Kelley
http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast/getcoast.html
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg_coastline/
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
.