Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Timor Sea

A geospatial map depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction in the Timor Sea. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' and shows the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008, treaties, and various maritime zones. The background imagery combines bathymetric data from 2009 and 1997 sources with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on the depicted continental shelf and treaty lines.
• Study bathymetric features of the Timor Sea region based on the combined background grid.
• Create reference maps for legal or educational purposes based on the official maritime zones.
• Compare jurisdictional areas with other maps in the series based on the standardized A0 format.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 official maritime jurisdiction maps.
• Incorporates bathymetric data from two authoritative sources: a 2009 grid and Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
• Based on the extended continental shelf boundaries approved by an international commission in April 2008.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static PDF/A0 map; interactive analysis or extraction of raw vector data may not be possible.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from official maritime boundary definitions and composite bathymetric/land imagery.

Time Range

Maritime boundaries reflect the April 2008 approval; background imagery sources date from 1997 and 2009.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 03:04:34.935269; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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