Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Antarctic Territory

One of 27 constituent maps from the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789). The map depicts Australia's extended continental shelf as approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, along with treaties and various maritime zones. Background imagery combines bathymetric data from 2009 and 1997 sources with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime boundaries and zones based on the depicted treaties and continental shelf limits.
• Analyzing bathymetric features using the combined background grid derived from GA and Smith and Sandwell sources.
• Referencing the legal and geographical extent of Australia's Antarctic maritime jurisdiction for research or planning.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps providing consistent jurisdictional coverage.
• Based on an officially approved continental shelf submission from April 2008.
• Integrates multiple authoritative data sources for bathymetry and topography.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from official treaties, continental shelf submissions, and bathymetric/topographic grids.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 21:37:38.112213; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime zones off the Australian Antarctic Territory