Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Timor Sea

One of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). It depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, along with treaties and maritime zones. The map's background combines bathymetric data from a 2009 9 arc second grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell, with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Visualize maritime boundary treaties based on the depicted zones and treaties.
• Analyze continental shelf extents based on the 2008 Commission-approved limits.
• Study regional bathymetry based on the combined background grid data.
• Reference jurisdictional claims for legal or diplomatic research based on the mapped maritime zones.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional coverage.
• Integrates authoritative data sources, including a 2009 bathymetric grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.
• Based on a formally approved continental shelf boundary from April 2008.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source platform and the specific 2008/2009 data snapshots.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from bathymetric grids and official maritime boundary data, compiled into a geospatial map.

Time Range

Primary boundary data from 2008, with background imagery from 1997 and 2009 sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 18:11:40.746155; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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