Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Western Antarctic Territory

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the western Australian Antarctic Territory, depicting maritime zones and the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008. This is one of 27 maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789), with background imagery from NASA's Blue Marble and bathymetry from Smith and Sandwell, 1997. The dataset is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network as an A0-sized PDF.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime boundary definitions based on the depicted continental shelf and maritime zones.
• Study bathymetric features in the region based on the background grid derived from Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
• Reference jurisdictional claims for legal or diplomatic research based on the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf approval.
• Integrate base map layers for Antarctic cartography based on the NASA Blue Marble land imagery.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps providing systematic coverage.
• Based on an official extended continental shelf approval by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.
• Incorporates authoritative background data from NASA's Blue Marble and a 1997 bathymetric grid.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided as a static PDF map, limiting direct machine-readability and analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative applications.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Derived from official maritime jurisdiction definitions and composite background imagery.

Time Range

Based on a 2008 continental shelf approval; background bathymetry from 1997.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 23:27:12.182355; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Western portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory and surrounding maritime jurisdiction.