Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction and Continental Shelf Maps

28 maps depict areas of Australia's maritime jurisdiction, continental shelf, treaties, and various maritime zones. The collection includes regional maps for areas like the Torres Strait, Timor Sea, and the Australian Antarctic Territory. Maps are provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network in PDF format.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary polygons for treaty compliance and jurisdictional overlap detection.
• Extract continental shelf claims from geospatial map layers for resource rights assessment.
• Compare different map projections (e.g., Lambert, Mercator) for specific regions like Tasmania or Macquarie Island for cartographic studies.
• Identify Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) boundaries around external territories like Cocos (Keeling) Islands for fisheries management modeling.
• Overlay bathymetry data with jurisdictional zones from the maps for submarine cable route planning.

Strengths

• 28 distinct regional maps provide detailed coverage.
• Includes maps for remote territories like Heard Island and the Australian Antarctic Territory.
• Offers multiple standard map projections (Lambert, Mercator) for key areas.

Limitations

• Data is provided as static PDF maps, not machine-readable vector data (e.g., Shapefile, GeoJSON).
• Sample size and specific row/column counts for underlying data are unknown.
• Temporal coverage and specific creation dates for individual maps are not provided.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network.

Collection Method

Published external thematic maps, likely compiled from official legal and hydrographic sources.

Freshness

Metadata was last updated on 2026-04-04.

Geography

Australia's national maritime jurisdiction, including continental shelf, and surrounding seas and external territories.