Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Timor Sea with Bathymetric Background

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Timor Sea is depicted in this map from the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series. It shows the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008, treaties, and maritime zones over a bathymetric background derived from 2009 and 1997 grids. The map is an A0-sized PDF produced by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime boundaries and treaties based on the depicted jurisdiction zones.
• Analyzing continental shelf extents based on the approved limits from 2008.
• Studying seafloor topography based on the combined bathymetric background imagery.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized 27-map series (GeoCat 71789), suggesting consistent methodology.
• Background imagery combines high-resolution bathymetric and topographic data from 2009 and 1997 sources.
• Includes legally significant features like the approved 2008 continental shelf and treaty boundaries.

Limitations

• Data is provided only as a static PDF and HTML, limiting computational analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation from legal documents and geospatial grids.

Time Range

Primary jurisdictional data reflects the 2008 continental shelf approval.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 12:23:02.636788; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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