One of the 27 constituent maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series, updated in June 2014. The map depicts Australia's continental shelf as proclaimed in the Seas and Submerged Lands (Limits of Continental Shelf) Proclamation 2012. Background imagery combines bathymetric data from Geoscience Australia and NASA's Blue Marble.
Use Cases
- Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on the continental shelf proclamation.
- Visualize bathymetric and topographic features in the Timor Sea region.
- Reference jurisdictional limits for legal or diplomatic purposes.
- Integrate with other maritime boundary datasets from the series.
Strengths
- Part of a standardized series of 27 maps, suggesting consistent methodology.
- Updated to conform with authoritative Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014 data.
- Background imagery derived from multiple sources (GA 2009 grid, Smith and Sandwell 1997, NASA Blue Marble).
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.
- Last updated 2026-05-05 05:00:52.501910; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Time Range
- 2014
- Geography
- Timor Sea, Australia