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

One of 27 maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789), depicting maritime zones and the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008. The map was produced by the Australian Ocean Data Network, with a background combining bathymetric data from 2009 and 1997 and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble. It is available as an A0-sized PDF for download.

Use Cases

• Visualize maritime legal boundaries based on the depicted treaties and maritime zones.
• Analyze seafloor topography based on the combined bathymetric grid background.
• Reference the extent of Australia's continental shelf as approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
• Integrate jurisdictional data with other marine spatial planning layers based on the geospatial format.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps, suggesting consistent methodology.
• Background incorporates multiple authoritative data sources: a 2009 9 arc-second grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.
• Includes the extended continental shelf boundary as formally approved in April 2008.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• The primary format is a static PDF, which may limit machine-readability and data extraction.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from bathymetric and topographic grids and treaty information, compiled into a map.

Time Range

The continental shelf approval date is April 2008; background data sources are from 1997 and 2009.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 19:15:30.725572; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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