Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Arafura and Coral Seas

One of 27 maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). This map depicts Australia's extended continental shelf, approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, along with treaties and various maritime zones. Background imagery combines bathymetric data from Geoscience Australia (2009) and Smith and Sandwell (1997) with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundaries and exclusive economic zones based on depicted jurisdiction lines.
• Study the extent of Australia's continental shelf based on the 2008 CLCS approval.
• Integrate bathymetric data for oceanographic modeling based on the combined GA and Smith/Sandwell grid.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps, suggesting systematic coverage.
• Incorporates authoritative bathymetric data from Geoscience Australia (2009) and Smith and Sandwell (1997).
• Depicts legally significant zones, including an extended continental shelf approved by the CLCS in April 2008.

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, focusing solely on Australian claims.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation from treaty data, CLCS submissions, and bathymetric surveys.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 03:49:26.745584; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Arafura and Coral Seas, Australia