One of 27 maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series, depicting maritime zones approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008. The map combines bathymetric data from a 2009 9 arc second grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell, with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.
Use Cases
- Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on depicted extended continental shelf and zones.
- Study bathymetric features in the Coral and Tasman Seas based on the combined background grid.
- Reference treaty-defined maritime jurisdictions for legal or diplomatic research.
- Integrate geospatial layers for oceanographic or coastal management mapping.
Strengths
- Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps.
- Background bathymetry derived from a specific 2009 9 arc second grid and a 1997 grid.
- Maritime zones are based on an April 2008 approval by an international commission.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data is provided as a static A0-sized PDF, limiting direct analysis of underlying vector or raster data.
- Freshness should be verified; the underlying bathymetric grids are from 2009 and 1997.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Map derived from bathymetric grids and treaty definitions.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 01:47:56.661242; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Coral and Tasman Seas, Australia's maritime jurisdiction.