Australia Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Arafura and Coral Seas

Geoscience Australia Data provides a thematic map depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction in the Arafura and Coral Seas. The map shows the extended continental shelf, treaties, and various maritime zones, using bathymetric and land imagery backgrounds. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the national Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series.

Use Cases

• Analyze the spatial boundaries of Australia's extended continental shelf in the Arafura and Coral Seas for maritime law research.
• Overlay maritime zone data with bathymetric imagery to study seabed geography relative to jurisdictional claims.
• Use the treaty and administrative boundary layers for regional marine spatial planning and policy development.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized national map series consisting of 27 constituent maps.
• Includes multiple legally defined layers such as the extended continental shelf, treaties, and maritime zones.
• Background imagery combines bathymetric data from a 2009 9 arc-second grid and NASA's Blue Marble.

Limitations

• Data is provided as a static PDF/A0 map, not as machine-readable geospatial vectors or tabular data.
• The continental shelf data reflects a 2008 approval, which may not incorporate subsequent legal or geological updates.
• No sample data or column schema is available to assess the underlying attribute structure.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

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

Time Range

The extended continental shelf was approved by the UN Commission in April 2008.

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the core jurisdictional data is from 2008.

Geography

Arafura Sea and Coral Sea regions within Australia's maritime jurisdiction.