Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Timor Sea Map 2014

One of 27 constituent maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series, this map depicts Australia's continental shelf as proclaimed in the 2012 Seas and Submerged Lands Proclamation. Updated in June 2014 to conform with Geoscience Australia's Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014 data, it includes bathymetric imagery derived from a 2009 9 arc second grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.

Use Cases

• Visualize maritime jurisdiction boundaries based on the proclaimed continental shelf.
• Analyze bathymetric data for the Timor Sea region based on the combined background grid.
• Reference the legal and geographic basis for Australia's maritime claims as established by the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maritime jurisdiction maps.
• Updated to conform with the authoritative Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014 dataset.
• Background bathymetry combines data from a 2009 Geoscience Australia grid 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.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source platforms and the 2014 update.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Derived from Geoscience Australia's Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014 data and bathymetric grids.

Time Range

2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 03:56:59.568870; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Timor Sea, Australia