Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Antarctic Territory East

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the Australian Antarctic Territory (East) is a constituent map of the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series. 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 background bathymetric image is derived from a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997, and land imagery from Blue Marble, NASA's Earth Observatory.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime zone boundaries based on the depiction of Australia's extended continental shelf.
• Study bathymetric features using the background image derived from the Smith and Sandwell grid.
• Compare jurisdictional maps for Antarctic territories based on the series of 27 constituent maps.

Strengths

• Map is part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps.
• Background bathymetry is derived from a specific grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
• Maritime zones are based on a continental shelf approval dated April 2008.

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 format is primarily PDF, which may limit direct computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 15:13:33.743685; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Eastern portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory