Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Timor Sea

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Timor Sea is a geospatial map depicting maritime boundaries and treaties. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789) and shows the extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008. The map includes background bathymetry from a 2009 9 arc second grid and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary claims based on the depicted treaties and zones.
• Study continental shelf extents based on the 2008 Commission approval.
• Integrate bathymetric and topographic background layers for regional mapping.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional coverage.
• Incorporates authoritative bathymetric data from a 2009 9 arc second grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.
• Based on a formal legal decision from the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.

Limitations

• Data is provided as a static A0-sized PDF, limiting direct computational analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Derived from bathymetric grids and legal boundary definitions.

Time Range

The continental shelf approval is from April 2008; background imagery sources range from 1997 to 2009.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 01:43:35.518000; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Timor Sea region, Australia's maritime jurisdiction.