Administrative Units (Sea Borders)

The Inspired Maritime Administrative Units. These are concentrated coordinates of the sea border charts 2920 (North Sea) and 2921 (Baltic Sea). They are condensed (interpolished) coordinates on geodetic lines. The distance between the nodes on the geodetic lines of the defined boundary points is less than 100 m. The sea borders of Germany have been proclaimed in the European Date 1950 (ED50) coordinate system no longer customary. This provision is based in particular on the announcement of the proclamation of the Federal Government on the extension of the German territorial sea of 19 October 1994 (BGBl. I p. 3428) and the proclamation of the Federal Republic of Germany on the establishment of an exclusive economic zone of 25 November 1994 (BGBl. II, p. 3769), which are relevant for the demarcation of the German territorial sea and the German exclusive economic zone. In order to better use these limits in today’s GI systems and to avoid conversion errors, the BSH has derived the available usage coordinates in WGS 84. They are not Germany’s official maritime borders.