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

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Arafura and Coral Seas is one of 27 maps in the national Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series. The 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. It is published by the Australian Ocean Data Network and uses bathymetric imagery from 2009 and 1997 sources with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary claims based on depicted treaties and maritime zones.
• Study continental shelf geography based on the approved extended continental shelf limits.
• Incorporate bathymetric data for oceanographic modeling based on the combined 2009 and 1997 grids.
• Reference jurisdictional boundaries for marine spatial planning in the Arafura and Coral Seas.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized national map series consisting of 27 constituent maps.
• Includes continental shelf limits formally approved by an international commission in April 2008.
• Background imagery combines multiple authoritative sources, including a 2009 GA grid and NASA's Blue Marble.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static A0-sized PDF, limiting direct computational analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from combined bathymetric and topographic grids and treaty data.

Time Range

Continental shelf limits approved in April 2008; background imagery sources from 1997 and 2009.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 22:07:54.672181; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Arafura and Coral Seas, Australia's maritime jurisdiction.