Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Antarctic Territory

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the Australian Antarctic Territory is one of 27 maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series'. The map depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved in April 2008, treaties, and maritime zones over a bathymetric and topographic background. It is a 3400mm x 1050mm sized PDF file provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime jurisdiction boundaries based on the depicted continental shelf and treaty zones.
• Analyzing bathymetric and topographic features based on the combined background grid data.
• Producing large-format reference maps for the Antarctic region based on the 42-inch plotter-sized PDF.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps, suggesting consistent methodology.
• Background imagery combines a 2009 9 arc-second grid and a 1997 grid by Smith and Sandwell.
• Map dimensions are specified as 3400mm x 1050mm for a 42-inch plotter.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static PDF/HTML map, limiting direct computational analysis.
• Freshness should be verified; the map's underlying legal and bathymetric data may be outdated.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from bathymetric/topographic grids and legal boundary definitions.

Time Range

Background imagery from 1997 and 2009; continental shelf approval date is April 2008.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 17:09:59.052111; freshness should be verified

Geography

Maritime zones off the Australian Antarctic Territory.