Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Antarctic Territory Centre

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 and various maritime zones off the central portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory. The background bathymetric image is derived from a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997, and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime zone boundaries based on the depiction of Australia's extended continental shelf.
• Study bathymetric features in the Antarctic region based on the Smith and Sandwell, 1997 grid.
• Compare territorial claims using the map series' depiction of the Australian Antarctic Territory.
• Create composite jurisdictional maps based on the 27 constituent maps in the series.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps (GeoCat 71789), suggesting consistent methodology.
• Depicts maritime zones based on an April 2008 approval by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
• Background imagery combines bathymetric data from Smith and Sandwell, 1997 and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Map creation as part of a national maritime jurisdiction series.

Geography

Central portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory