Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Central Western Australia

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 and various maritime zones. Background imagery combines bathymetric data from 2009 and 1997 sources with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime zone boundaries based on the depicted extended continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Study bathymetric features off Central Western Australia based on the combined 2009 and 1997 grid data.
• Reference jurisdictional limits for marine resource management or legal studies based on the approved continental shelf map.
• Create composite regional maps using this A0-sized PDF as a base layer.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps, providing consistent coverage.
• Background bathymetry derived from two authoritative sources: a 2009 9 arc second grid by GA and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.
• Land imagery sourced from NASA's Blue Marble, a well-known global dataset.

Limitations

• Data is provided only as an A0-sized PDF and HTML, limiting direct geospatial analysis without conversion.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from approved continental shelf boundaries and composite bathymetric/land imagery grids.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 07:33:12.676991; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Central Western Australia maritime jurisdiction area.