Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Southwestern Western Australia

One of 27 constituent maps from the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). This map depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, along with various maritime zones. The background combines a 2009 9 arc-second bathymetric grid from Geoscience Australia with a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell, overlaid on NASA's Blue Marble land imagery.

Use Cases

• Delimit maritime boundaries for legal and policy purposes based on the depicted continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Analyze seabed topography for marine research based on the combined bathymetric background imagery.
• Create reference maps for marine spatial planning off Southwestern Western Australia based on the defined jurisdictional areas.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps covering Australia's maritime jurisdiction.
• Based on an officially approved continental shelf boundary from April 2008.
• Background imagery synthesizes data from Geoscience Australia (2009) and Smith and Sandwell (1997).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static A0-sized PDF, limiting direct computational analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation for the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series'.

Time Range

The continental shelf boundary reflects the April 2008 approval; background imagery sources range from 1997 to 2009.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 02:45:55.124261; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime jurisdiction off Southwestern Western Australia.