Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Macquarie Island is a map depicting Australia's extended continental shelf, approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, treaties and various maritime zones. It is one of the 27 constituent maps of the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). 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 based on depicted treaties and maritime zones.
- Study continental shelf extents based on the approved 2008 limits.
- Visualize ocean floor topography based on the combined bathymetric background image.
Strengths
- Part of a standardized series of 27 maps.
- Based on an official continental shelf approval from April 2008.
- Background bathymetry combines data from 2009 and 1997 sources.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 00:16:08.408890; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Macquarie Island region, Australia