Maritime Jurisdiction Map of Central Australian Antarctic Territory

One of 27 constituent maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series. This A0-sized PDF depicts the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008 and various maritime zones off the central Australian Antarctic Territory, with background bathymetry from 1997 and NASA land imagery.

Use Cases

• Extract maritime zone boundaries and continental shelf limits for legal and policy analysis.
• Analyze bathymetric background imagery derived from the Smith and Sandwell 1997 grid for oceanographic studies.
• Use the map as a labeled geospatial reference for training computer vision models on Antarctic maritime features.
• Integrate this map with other series constituents to create a composite view of Australia's full maritime jurisdiction.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 authoritative maps on Australia's maritime jurisdiction.
• Based on the extended continental shelf formally approved by the UN Commission in April 2008.
• Incorporates established background datasets from Smith and Sandwell (1997) and NASA's Blue Marble.

Limitations

• Primary data is a static PDF map, not a machine-readable vector or raster geospatial dataset.
• Bathymetric background imagery is from 1997, which may not reflect current seafloor measurements.
• Spatial coverage is limited to the central portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Continental shelf limits approved April 2008; background imagery from 1997.

Freshness

Map content reflects the 2008 continental shelf approval; metadata was updated in March 2026.

Geography

Central portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory and its adjacent maritime zones.