Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Northern Coral Sea, 2008

A geospatial map depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction in the northern Coral Sea. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). The map shows the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008, various maritime zones, and uses bathymetric and topographic background imagery from sources including Geoscience Australia.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary claims based on the depicted extended continental shelf and zones.
• Study bathymetric features in the Coral Sea region using the derived background imagery.
• Reference treaty-defined maritime zones for legal or policy research.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional coverage.
• Based on an extended continental shelf boundary formally approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.
• Background imagery combines data from Geoscience Australia's 2009 grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.

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 or temporal bias inherent to the source platforms and compilation date.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Derived from official maritime boundary determinations and composite bathymetric/topographic grids.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 03:03:47.037002; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern part of the Coral Sea, Australia