Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the Australian Antarctic Territory (East) is a constituent map of 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 imagery includes bathymetric data from Smith and Sandwell, 1997 and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.
Use Cases
- Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on the depiction of Australia's extended continental shelf.
- Study bathymetric features in Antarctic waters based on the background grid by Smith and Sandwell.
- Visualize jurisdictional zones for legal or diplomatic research based on the map's depiction of maritime zones.
Strengths
- Map is part of a formal series (GeoCat 71789) comprising 27 constituent maps.
- Depicts legally defined boundaries approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.
- Background imagery is derived from authoritative sources (Smith and Sandwell, 1997; NASA Blue Marble).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data is provided as a static A0-sized PDF, limiting direct quantitative analysis.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 05:14:42.532509; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Eastern portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory