Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for Eastern Antarctic Territory

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the eastern Australian Antarctic Territory is depicted in this A0-sized map. The map is one of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' and shows the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008, along with various maritime zones. Background imagery includes bathymetric data from Smith and Sandwell (1997) and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary claims based on the depicted continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Study bathymetric features of the Antarctic seafloor based on the Smith and Sandwell grid background.
• Reference jurisdictional limits for legal or diplomatic research concerning the Australian Antarctic Territory.
• Integrate as a base layer for thematic mapping of Antarctic marine resources or activities.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional coverage.
• Based on an extended continental shelf formally approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.
• Incorporates authoritative background data from Smith and Sandwell (1997) and NASA's Blue Marble.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• The primary format is a static PDF, which may limit direct machine-readability and data extraction.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Derived from official maritime jurisdiction determinations and composite geospatial sources.

Time Range

The continental shelf approval is from April 2008; background data sources are from 1997 and later.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 00:59:09.081454; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Eastern portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory and surrounding maritime areas.