Scotland's Beach Award is the benchmark for quality, celebrating clean, well managed and sustainable beaches. Awarded beaches demonstrate excellent beach management and environmental best practice, and the maintenance of high standards.
This layer shows the approximate location of the beaches based on the list provided by Keep Scotland Beautiful. For designated bathing waters, the bathing waters ID is included.
Point dataset displaying the locations of Marine Wildlife Centres and Aquariums across Scotland. These centres are designed and open to visitors with many offering events and activities that are often attractions for tourism.
Scottish museums with maritime exhibitions. Maritime exhibitions can include shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, historic docks, lighthouses, and general coastal heritage.
Under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010, Scottish Ministers were given the power to identify the boundaries of Scottish Marine Regions (SMRs) for the purposes of regional marine planning. The Scottish Marine Regions Order 2015 identifies 11 Scottish Marine Regions and establishes their boundaries. Mask layers have additionally been produced for NMPi depicting each of the individual Scottish Marine regions. This layer displays the North Coast and Orkney Islands Regions.
