Maritime Jurisdiction Map of Australia's Bass Strait

One map in a series of 27 depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction. It shows the extended continental shelf approved in 2008 and various maritime zones over a bathymetric background. The map is produced by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the spatial extent of Australia's extended continental shelf in Bass Strait using the depicted boundaries.
• Compare maritime zones, such as the Exclusive Economic Zone, against bathymetric data from 2009.
• Integrate this jurisdictional boundary layer with other marine spatial planning datasets for the region.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 national maritime jurisdiction maps.
• Based on an extended continental shelf boundary approved by an international commission in 2008.
• Integrates bathymetric data from a 2009 9 arc-second grid.

Limitations

• Data is static and presented only in PDF/HTML format, not as machine-readable vector data.
• The underlying bathymetric grid incorporates older 1997 data.
• No attribute table or column data is provided for quantitative analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network.

Collection Method

Cartographic representation of legally defined boundaries and synthesized bathymetric grids.

Time Range

Jurisdictional data reflects the 2008 commission approval.

Freshness

Updated in April 2026, but the core jurisdictional data is from 2008.

Geography

Bass Strait region, Australia.