Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Tasman Sea

A 2008-approved map depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction in the Tasman Sea. It is one of 27 maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789), showing the extended continental shelf, treaties, and various maritime zones. The background bathymetry combines a 2009 9 arc second grid by GA and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell, with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on depicted treaties and zones.
• Study continental shelf extents based on the 2008 Commission-approved limits.
• Visualize seafloor topography based on the combined bathymetric background imagery.
• Reference jurisdictional claims for legal or diplomatic research based on the map series.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps.
• Based on an extended continental shelf approval by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.
• Background bathymetry derived from two specific sources: a 2009 grid by GA and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 01:39:32.026138; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tasman Sea