Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Eastern Antarctic Territory

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. It was produced by Geoscience Australia with a background bathymetric image from Smith and Sandwell (1997) and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundaries and zones based on the depicted continental shelf and jurisdictional lines.
• Study bathymetric features of the seafloor using the background grid derived from Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
• Reference territorial claims and legal maritime geography for the Australian Antarctic Territory (East).
• Create base maps for regional environmental or logistical planning in the Antarctic maritime area.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional coverage.
• Based on an officially approved continental shelf boundary from April 2008.
• Integrates two established background data sources: a bathymetric grid and NASA's Blue Marble imagery.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static A0-sized PDF, limiting direct machine-readability and analysis.
• Freshness should be verified; the underlying legal and bathymetric data sources are from 2008 and 1997 respectively.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation for the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 14:55:41.630339; freshness should be verified

Geography

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