Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Macquarie Island, Mercator Projection

Macquarie Island's maritime jurisdiction map shows Australia's extended continental shelf and various maritime zones. It is one of 27 maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789) and uses bathymetric data from 2009 and 1997 sources. The map is available as an A0 portrait PDF from the Australian Ocean Data Network, last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary claims based on the depicted extended continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Study ocean floor topography based on the combined bathymetric and topographic background image.
• Reference treaty-defined zones for legal or diplomatic research based on the map's jurisdictional depictions.
• Create base maps for regional marine spatial planning based on the authoritative jurisdiction lines.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps providing consistent coverage.
• Based on an extended continental shelf approval by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.
• Background bathymetry combines data from a 2009 9 arc-second grid and a 1997 source for detail.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static PDF map, limiting direct machine-readability and analysis.
• Freshness should be verified; the last metadata update was 2026-04-10.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from bathymetric and topographic grids and official jurisdictional data.

Time Range

The continental shelf approval dates to April 2008; bathymetric data sources are from 2009 and 1997.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 17:55:30.119117

Geography

Maritime jurisdiction around Macquarie Island, Australia.