Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the Australian Antarctic Territory (West)

A geospatial map depicting Australia's maritime jurisdiction off the western portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' and shows the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008. The map uses background bathymetry from Smith and Sandwell (1997) and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime zone boundaries based on the depicted legal jurisdictions.
• Study the extent of the continental shelf based on the 2008 Commission approval.
• Visualize bathymetric features using the Smith and Sandwell (1997) grid background.
• Compare regional maritime claims using this map as part of the 27-map series.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 maps for consistent jurisdictional mapping.
• Based on an authoritative legal decision from the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.
• Integrates established scientific data sources for bathymetry (Smith and Sandwell, 1997) and land imagery (NASA 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 specific legal and scientific sources used.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation for legal and scientific display.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 22:02:23.677084; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime zones off the western Australian Antarctic Territory.