Southwestern Western Australia is covered by this A0-sized map depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction. It is one of 27 maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' and shows the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008. The background combines bathymetric data from Geoscience Australia (2009) and Smith and Sandwell (1997) with NASA Blue Marble land imagery.
Use Cases
- Visualizing maritime zone boundaries based on the approved continental shelf limits.
- Analyzing bathymetric features off the southwestern Australian coast using the combined grid data.
- Referencing official maritime jurisdiction for legal or regulatory compliance purposes.
- Incorporating high-resolution A0 map layers into larger marine spatial planning projects.
Strengths
- Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maritime jurisdiction maps.
- Integrates bathymetric data from two authoritative sources: Geoscience Australia (2009) and Smith and Sandwell (1997).
- Based on the extended continental shelf formally approved by the UN Commission in April 2008.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data may reflect geographic and source bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Derived from bathymetric and topographic grids and official maritime boundary data.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-16 23:32:06.169364; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Southwestern Western Australia, Australia