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

One of 27 constituent maps from the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). This geospatial PDF 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. The background bathymetric imagery combines a 2009 9 arc second grid with a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell, and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Delineate legal maritime boundaries based on depicted treaties and zones.
• Analyze seabed topography for the region based on the combined bathymetric background.
• Reference the approved 2008 continental shelf limits for legal or research purposes.
• Integrate the map as a base layer for regional marine spatial planning.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional coverage.
• Integrates authoritative bathymetric data from 2009 and 1997 sources.
• Based on a continental shelf submission formally approved in April 2008.

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.
• Freshness should be verified; the map integrates background data from 1997 and 2009.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation from treaty data, jurisdictional claims, and bathymetric grids.

Time Range

Background data from 1997 and 2009; shelf approval in 2008.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 12:25:30.061873

Geography

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