Australian Maritime Jurisdiction Map For The Timor Sea

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Timor Sea 2014 is a constituent map from the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series. It depicts the proclaimed continental shelf based on the 2012 proclamation and was updated in June 2014 by Geoscience Australia. The map is an A0-sized PDF downloadable from the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Analyze Australia's continental shelf boundaries in the Timor Sea for legal or resource management purposes.
• Compare maritime jurisdiction lines with bathymetric data derived from the 2009 9 arc second grid and Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
• Integrate this map layer with other geospatial datasets using the background land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.
• Verify national maritime claims against the legal framework established by the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.

Strengths

• Map is part of a standardized national series of 27 constituent maps.
• Boundaries conform to the authoritative Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014 dataset.
• Background incorporates multiple data sources including a 2009 bathymetric grid.

Limitations

• Data is a static map (PDF) from 2014, not a machine-readable vector dataset.
• No columnar or sample data is available for quantitative analysis.
• Spatial coverage is limited to the Timor Sea region only.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia via the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Collection Method

Cartographic production based on legal proclamations and integrated geospatial data.

Time Range

Snapshot from 2014, based on a 2012 proclamation.

Freshness

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Geography

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