One map from the 27-part Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series depicts the nation's extended continental shelf boundaries approved in April 2008. The A0-sized PDF combines bathymetric data from a 2009 grid by GA and Smith and Sandwell (1997) with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble. It is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network and excludes Cocos Island, subantarctic territories, and the AAT.
Use Cases
- Visualizing maritime jurisdiction boundaries based on the approved continental shelf limits.
- Analyzing bathymetric and topographic background data derived from specified scientific grids.
- Creating reference maps for legal or educational purposes based on the official map series.
Strengths
- Part of a 27-map series providing systematic coverage.
- Based on continental shelf limits approved by an international commission in April 2008.
- Integrates bathymetric data from two specific scientific sources (GA 2009 and Smith and Sandwell 1997).
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.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing only on the Australian continent.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Derived from scientific grids and official boundary approvals.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 01:07:23.311341; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Maritime jurisdiction around the Australian continent.