Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Northern Australia, 2014

June 2014 map showing Australia's maritime jurisdiction off its northern coast, produced by Geoscience Australia. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series', depicting the continental shelf as proclaimed in 2012. The background combines bathymetry from 2009 and 1997 sources with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime jurisdictional boundaries based on the 2012 proclamation
• Analyzing continental shelf extents for legal or environmental studies
• Integrating bathymetric and land imagery for coastal mapping projects
• Referencing official Australian maritime zones for cartographic work

Strengths

• Map is part of a standardized national series of 27 constituent maps
• Background integrates bathymetric data from two authoritative sources (2009 and 1997)
• Based on a specific legal proclamation (Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973)

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is from 2014; jurisdictional boundaries may have been updated since
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia

Collection Method

Derived from 'Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014' data and background imagery grids

Time Range

2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 02:27:36.734166; freshness should be verified

Geography

Northern Australia, including areas contiguous to the north and as far west as Christmas Island