One of 27 maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series. It depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, treaties, and various maritime zones. The background bathymetric image is derived from data collected from research vessels and satellite imagery.
Use Cases
- Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on depicted treaties and zones
- Study continental shelf extents based on the 2008 Commission approval
- Visualize bathymetric features based on the derived satellite and vessel data
Strengths
- Part of a standardized series of 27 maps
- Based on an official continental shelf approval from April 2008
- Background bathymetry derived from research vessel and satellite data
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Data collected from research vessels and derived from satellite imagery
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-04 07:01:49.526041; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Torres Strait