Maritime Jurisdiction Map of Southwestern Western Australia

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off Southwestern Western Australia is a constituent map of the 27-map national series. The map depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved in April 2008 and various maritime zones, published by the Australian Ocean Data Network. It is available as an A0-sized PDF for download.

Use Cases

• Analyze the spatial extent of the approved continental shelf boundary for legal or policy research.
• Integrate maritime zone boundaries with bathymetric background data for marine spatial planning.
• Use the georeferenced jurisdictional lines as a base layer for mapping offshore resource claims.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized national series of 27 constituent maritime jurisdiction maps.
• Based on the formally approved extended continental shelf boundaries from April 2008.
• Background combines bathymetric data from a 2009 9 arc-second grid and a 1997 source.

Limitations

• Data is static and reflects the legal situation as of the 2008 CLCS approval, potentially missing subsequent updates.
• Primary format is a static PDF (A0 size), requiring extraction for geospatial analysis.
• Sample data and specific row/column counts for underlying vector data are unavailable.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, part of the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789).

Collection Method

Cartographic production for legal and administrative purposes, integrating jurisdictional decisions with bathymetric and topographic grids.

Time Range

The approved continental shelf boundaries are from April 2008.

Freshness

Metadata last updated April 2026, but the underlying legal boundaries are from 2008.

Geography

Covers the maritime jurisdiction area off Southwestern Western Australia.