Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Central Western Australia

One of 27 constituent maps from the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series, depicting the extended continental shelf approved by the UN Commission in April 2008. The map 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. It is published by Geoscience Australia as an A0-sized PDF.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime zone boundaries based on the depicted extended continental shelf and other zones.
• Study seafloor topography based on the combined bathymetric background image.
• Reference jurisdictional claims for legal or environmental assessments based on the official map series.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps covering Australia's maritime jurisdiction.
• Based on the officially approved extended continental shelf boundaries from April 2008.
• Background bathymetry combines a detailed 2009 9 arc-second grid with a 1997 source.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static PDF and HTML, limiting direct computational analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Derived from official maritime boundary determinations and combined bathymetric grids.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 17:49:38.676895; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Central Western Australia coast and offshore maritime jurisdiction.