Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Coral Sea (North) Map

One of 27 constituent maps from the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). It 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 map's background bathymetric image is derived from a 2009 9 arc second grid by Geoscience Australia and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell, with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary claims based on the depicted extended continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Study ocean floor topography based on the combined bathymetric background imagery.
• Reference treaty-defined zones for legal or diplomatic research based on the included treaty information.

Strengths

• Part of a series of 27 constituent maps, providing a systematic view of maritime jurisdiction.
• Integrates authoritative bathymetric data from Geoscience Australia (2009) and Smith and Sandwell (1997).
• Based on an extended continental shelf submission approved by an international commission 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.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source platform and compilation date.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from official maritime boundary data and bathymetric grids.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 00:43:37.552295; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern part of the Coral Sea, Australia