Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Heard Island and McDonald Islands is a constituent map from the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series. It depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved in April 2008, treaties, and various maritime zones. The map uses a Lambert Conformal Conic Projection and background imagery derived from bathymetric and land data sources.
Use Cases
- Analyze maritime zone boundaries based on depicted treaties and jurisdictional lines.
- Study continental shelf extents based on the 2008 Commission approval.
- Visualize bathymetric and land features around the islands based on the background imagery.
- Reference jurisdictional maps for legal or territorial research based on the map series context.
Strengths
- Part of a standardized map series (GeoCat 71789) comprising 27 constituent maps.
- Based on authoritative continental shelf data approved by an international commission in April 2008.
- Background imagery derived from specific, cited sources (Smith and Sandwell 1997, NASA Blue Marble).
Limitations
- Data format is a static A0-sized PDF; interactive or raw vector data is unavailable.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 15:38:23.964080; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australian Antarctic Territory