Australia's Southern Coral Sea Maritime Jurisdiction Map

One map from a series of 27 depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction in the southern Coral Sea. It shows the extended continental shelf approved in 2008, treaties, and various maritime zones over a bathymetric and topographic background. The map was produced by the Australian Ocean Data Network and published as an A0-sized PDF.

Use Cases

• Analyze the spatial extent of Australia's exclusive economic zone using the depicted maritime zone boundaries.
• Study the approved continental shelf limits from 2008 against the underlying bathymetric data.
• Compare treaty-defined maritime boundaries with the background land imagery derived from NASA's Blue Marble.
• Integrate the jurisdictional boundaries with other marine datasets using the geospatial coordinates inherent in the map.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps for consistent coverage.
• Integrates multiple authoritative data sources including a 2009 9 arc-second grid and Smith and Sandwell (1997) bathymetry.

Limitations

• Data is static and based on a 2008 continental shelf approval, potentially missing recent developments.
• Primary format is a PDF, requiring extraction for quantitative geospatial analysis.
• Sample size and specific row/column counts for underlying vector data are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network.

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation from treaties, official approvals, and bathymetric surveys.

Time Range

Continental shelf limits approved in April 2008; background imagery circa 2009.

Freshness

Map metadata was updated in April 2026, but the underlying jurisdictional data reflects a 2008 approval.

Geography

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