Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Central Antarctic Territory

One of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). It depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008 and various maritime zones. The map uses a bathymetric background from Smith and Sandwell (1997) and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime boundaries based on the approved continental shelf limits.
• Analyzing bathymetric features for oceanographic research based on the Smith and Sandwell grid.
• Studying the spatial extent of Australia's Antarctic territorial claims based on the map's jurisdiction zones.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps, suggesting consistent methodology.
• Based on an officially approved continental shelf submission from April 2008.
• Uses established background data sources: Smith and Sandwell (1997) bathymetry and NASA Blue Marble imagery.

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 is provided as a static A0 PDF, limiting direct machine-readability and analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from official maritime jurisdiction data and published as part of a map series.

Time Range

The continental shelf limits reflect the 2008 Commission approval.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 02:23:52.954985; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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