Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Coral Sea North

One map from the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series, depicting the northern Coral Sea. The map shows Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, treaties, and various maritime zones. Background imagery combines bathymetric data from 2009 and 1997 sources with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Visualize maritime zone boundaries based on the depicted treaties and continental shelf approval.
• Analyze bathymetric features in the Coral Sea region based on the combined background grid data.
• Reference jurisdictional claims for legal or diplomatic research based on the official map series.
• Integrate maritime boundary data with other oceanographic datasets based on the geospatial format.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized 27-map series (GeoCat 71789), suggesting consistent methodology.
• Based on an official continental shelf approval from April 2008 and treaty data.
• Background bathymetry derived from specific, cited sources (2009 GA grid and Smith and Sandwell, 1997).

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 bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official legal documents, treaty records, and bathymetric surveys.

Time Range

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

Geography

Northern part of the Coral Sea, within Australia's maritime jurisdiction.