This line shapefile shows coastline data extracted from NOAA Raster Navigational Chart #18685: "United States--West Coast, California, Monterey Bay (1992)." Originally produced by the United States Defense Mapping Agency, this map contains coverage for Monterey Harbor, Small Craft Harbor, Santa Cruz, Moss Landing, and Monterey Bay, Shapefiles for this layer are available in WGS84 and UTM Zone 10 (NAD83) projections, and in Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) format. This layer is part of the GIS Data of the Monterey Bay collection, a compilation of data and imagery of the Monterey Bay area, including coastline, imagery, and bathymetry.This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. This collection of data provides documented layers of of the Monterey Bay to persons/institutions of interest throughout the research and educational communities.