Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Antarctic Territory (East)

One of 27 constituent maps from the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). This 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 off the eastern Australian Antarctic Territory. The background bathymetry is derived from a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997, and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime zone boundaries based on the depicted continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Study bathymetric features of the Antarctic continental margin based on the Smith and Sandwell grid.
• Create reference maps for Antarctic territorial jurisdiction based on the official A0-sized PDF.
• Compare maritime claims using the standardized map series this dataset belongs to.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps, providing a consistent framework for analysis.
• Based on an officially approved continental shelf submission from April 2008.
• Incorporates authoritative background data 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 and temporal bias inherent to the source platform and the 2008 approval date.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Approval date for the continental shelf is April 2008.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 07:57:03.376613; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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