Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Tasman Sea, Extended Continental Shelf Map

Geoscience Australia Data provides a map showing Australia's maritime jurisdiction in the Tasman Sea. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' and depicts the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008, treaties, and various maritime zones. The background includes bathymetric imagery from a 2009 9 arc-second grid and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Delimit maritime boundaries for legal and policy analysis based on depicted treaty lines and zones.
• Analyze seabed topography and resource potential based on the integrated bathymetric background.
• Visualize the spatial extent of Australia's extended continental shelf claim in the Tasman Sea region.
• Create educational or reference materials for maritime law and geography based on the official map series.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 official maritime jurisdiction maps.
• Based on an extended continental shelf claim approved by the UN Commission in April 2008.
• Integrates bathymetric data from a 2009 9 arc-second grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static A0 PDF map, limiting direct computational analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative uses.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation of legal boundaries and geophysical data.

Time Range

The continental shelf claim was approved in April 2008; background imagery sources date from 1997 and 2009.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 13:52:23.733915; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tasman Sea region, focusing on Australia's maritime jurisdiction.