Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for South Australia with Bathymetry

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off South Australia is a constituent map from the national series (GeoCat 71789). It depicts the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008 and various maritime zones, with a background derived from 2009 bathymetric/topographic grids and NASA's Blue Marble imagery. The map is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network as an A0-sized PDF.

Use Cases

• Visualize maritime zone boundaries based on the depicted continental shelf and jurisdictional lines.
• Analyze seabed topography based on the integrated bathymetric background imagery.
• Reference legal maritime claims for South Australia based on the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf approval.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized national series of 27 constituent maps.
• Background integrates specific data sources: the 2009 9 arc second grid and Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
• Based on a formal international approval by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from bathymetric/topographic grids and legal maritime boundaries.

Time Range

Based on 2008 continental shelf approval and 2009 background grid.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 17:15:05.097497; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime jurisdiction off the coast of South Australia, Australia.