Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Antarctic Territory

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the Australian Antarctic Territory is a constituent map of the national maritime jurisdiction series. It depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved in 2008, treaties, and maritime zones against a bathymetric background. The map is produced as a 3400mm x 1050mm PDF for plotting.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on depicted continental shelf and treaty zones.
• Study bathymetric features of the Antarctic continental margin based on the background grid.
• Visualize jurisdictional claims for cartographic or legal reference based on the map's detailed depiction.

Strengths

• Map is part of a standardized national series of 27 constituent maps.
• Background bathymetry combines a 2009 9 arc-second grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.
• Map size is specified as 3400mm x 1050mm for a 42-inch plotter.

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 bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from bathymetric and topographic grids and treaty information.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 04:26:03.565329; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australian Antarctic Territory maritime jurisdiction area.