Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the Australian Antarctic Territory (East)

One of 27 constituent maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series (GeoCat 71789). 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 bathymetry is derived from Smith and Sandwell, 1997, and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundaries based on the depicted extended continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Study bathymetric features in the region based on the Smith and Sandwell 1997 grid background.
• Reference jurisdictional claims for legal or policy research based on the Commission-approved continental shelf limits.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional mapping.
• Incorporates authoritative data from the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (April 2008).
• Uses established background datasets 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.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 19:03:30.546731; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime jurisdiction off the eastern portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory.