Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Central Antarctic Territory

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the Australian Antarctic Territory (Centre) is one of 27 maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series'. The 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. Background imagery is derived from bathymetric data by Smith and Sandwell (1997) and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary claims based on the depicted extended continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Study bathymetric features in the Antarctic region based on the background grid derived from Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
• Reference jurisdictional limits for legal or environmental policy work in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
• Integrate as a base layer for thematic mapping of Antarctic marine activities.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps, suggesting systematic coverage.
• Based on an extended continental shelf approval by an international commission in April 2008.
• Incorporates authoritative background data from Smith and Sandwell (1997) and 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.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation for the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789).

Time Range

Approval date referenced is April 2008; background data sources are from 1997.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 16:48:20.121875; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Central portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory and surrounding maritime jurisdiction.