Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Showing Extended Continental Shelf

One of 27 constituent maps from the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series (GeoCat 71789). The map depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, using bathymetric and topographic background imagery. It is published by the Australian Ocean Data Network and available as an A0-sized PDF.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime boundaries for legal and policy analysis based on the depicted extended continental shelf.
• Creating background maps for oceanographic research using the integrated bathymetric and topographic imagery.
• Referencing Australia's maritime jurisdiction for educational or cartographic purposes based on the official map series.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 official maritime jurisdiction maps.
• Based on the extended continental shelf approved by an international commission in April 2008.
• Background imagery combines multiple authoritative bathymetric and topographic data sources.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The map excludes Cocos Island, subantarctic territories, and the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 02:51:32.189651; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime jurisdiction around the Australian continent.