Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Tasmania and Macquarie Island

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around the State of Tasmania is a geospatial map depicting maritime zones, treaties, and the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series (GeoCat 71789). The background bathymetric image is derived from a 2009 9 arc second grid by GA and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on depicted zones and treaties.
• Study the extent of Australia's continental shelf based on the 2008 CLCS approval.
• Visualize bathymetric and topographic features around Tasmania based on the combined grid background.
• Compare maritime jurisdiction across regions using this map as part of the 27-map series.

Strengths

• Based on the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) approval in April 2008.
• Integrates bathymetric data from two authoritative sources: a 2009 GA grid and a 1997 Smith and Sandwell grid.
• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional coverage.

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.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 01:12:01.864492; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime jurisdiction around Tasmania and Macquarie Island.