Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Southern Coral Sea

A geospatial map depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction in the southern Coral Sea. The map is part of a 27-map series and shows the extended continental shelf approved in 2008, treaties, and various maritime zones. It was created by Geoscience Australia and uses bathymetric and topographic background imagery from sources including a 2009 grid and NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime boundaries and zones based on the depicted treaties and legal approvals.
• Analyzing the extent of Australia's continental shelf in the Coral Sea region based on the 2008 Commission approval.
• Creating base maps for marine spatial planning using the integrated bathymetric and land imagery.
• Referencing treaty-defined maritime limits for legal or diplomatic research.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized 27-map series (GeoCat 71789), suggesting consistent cartographic methods.
• Integrates multiple authoritative data sources, including a 2009 9 arc second grid and NASA imagery.
• Based on a legally defined boundary (extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static A0 PDF, which may limit direct computational analysis without conversion.
• Freshness should be verified; the underlying boundary data is from 2008, though the map was last updated in 2026.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation from bathymetric grids, treaty data, and legal documents.

Time Range

The depicted jurisdictional boundaries are based on a 2008 approval.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 09:07:49.064233

Geography

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