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

One of 27 constituent maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series, depicting the extended continental shelf approved by the UN Commission in April 2008. The map shows various maritime zones and treaties over a background bathymetric image derived from 2009 and 1997 grids. It is an A0-sized PDF produced by Geoscience Australia.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on depicted treaties and zones.
• Study continental shelf extents based on the 2008 UN Commission approval.
• Visualize undersea topography based on the combined bathymetric background imagery.
• Reference jurisdictional limits for marine spatial planning in the Arafura and Coral Seas.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps for consistent jurisdictional reference.
• Background bathymetry combines data from a 2009 9 arc-second grid and a 1997 source.
• Includes multiple legal and geographic layers: extended continental shelf, treaties, and maritime zones.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation for the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series (GeoCat 71789).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 17:39:31.210473; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Arafura and Coral Seas, Australia