Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Macquarie Island

One of the 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). It depicts Australia's extended continental shelf, approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, along with treaties and various maritime zones around Macquarie Island. The background bathymetric image is derived from a combination of the 2009 9 arc second bathymetric and topographic grid by GA and a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundaries and jurisdictional zones based on the depicted treaties and zones.
• Study the extended continental shelf geography based on the approved 2008 limits.
• Integrate bathymetric data for oceanographic modeling based on the combined GA and Smith & Sandwell grid background.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps, suggesting consistent methodology.
• Based on an officially approved continental shelf definition from April 2008.
• Incorporates bathymetric data from two specific sources (GA 2009 and Smith & Sandwell 1997).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static PDF/A0 map; extracting raw geospatial data may require manual processing.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 02:25:31.456524; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Macquarie Island and surrounding maritime jurisdiction areas.