Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction in the Timor Sea Map, A0 PDF

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

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary claims and treaties based on depicted jurisdictional zones.
• Study the extent of the continental shelf based on the 2008 Commission-approved limits.
• Incorporate bathymetric context for marine spatial planning based on the combined GA and Smith and Sandwell grid.
• Reference treaty-defined zones for legal or diplomatic research based on the map's annotations.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional coverage.
• Based on authoritative sources including a 2008 Commission decision and specific bathymetric grids from 2009 and 1997.
• Includes multiple data layers such as treaties, maritime zones, and bathymetric background.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static A0 PDF, limiting direct machine-readability and analysis.
• Freshness should be verified; the underlying treaty and bathymetric data sources are from 2008 and earlier.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Derived from official treaties, Commission decisions, and processed bathymetric/topographic grids.

Time Range

Treaty and continental shelf data reflects status as of April 2008 approval.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 13:15:23.589197; freshness should be verified

Geography

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