Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Macquarie Island

A geospatial map depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction around Macquarie Island. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). The map shows the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008, treaties, maritime zones, and uses a bathymetric background derived from 2009 and 1997 grids.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on depicted treaties and zones.
• Study continental shelf extents based on the 2008 CLCS approval.
• Visualize ocean floor topography based on the combined bathymetric background image.
• Reference jurisdictional claims for legal or diplomatic purposes based on the official map series.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 official maritime jurisdiction maps.
• Based on an extended continental shelf approval by the CLCS with a specific date (April 2008).
• Background bathymetry combines two specific sourced grids (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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 15:23:13.177532; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Macquarie Island, Australia