Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for South Australia

A geospatial map depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction off the coast of South Australia. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789), showing the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008 and various maritime zones. The map was produced by Geoscience Australia, with a background derived from bathymetric and topographic grids from 2009 and 1997, and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Delineating maritime legal boundaries based on the depicted continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Analyzing ocean floor topography for South Australia's coast using the integrated bathymetric background.
• Creating reference maps for marine spatial planning based on the official jurisdiction data.
• Studying the extent of Australia's continental shelf as approved by the UN Commission in 2008.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing national coverage.
• Integrates multiple authoritative data sources, including a 2009 9 arc-second grid and NASA's Blue Marble imagery.
• Based on the extended continental shelf boundaries formally approved by the UN Commission in April 2008.

Limitations

• Data is provided only in PDF and HTML formats, limiting direct machine-readability and analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative applications.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Derived from a combination of the 2009 9 arc second bathymetric and topographic grid by GA and a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997. Background land imagery derived from Blue Marble, NASA's Earth Observatory.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 18:28:05.379990; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime jurisdiction off the coast of South Australia, Australia.