Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Western Antarctic Territory

Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off the Australian Antarctic Territory (West) is a constituent map of 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. Background imagery includes bathymetric data from Smith and Sandwell (1997) and land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime zone boundaries based on the depicted extended continental shelf and other zones.
• Study bathymetric features of the Antarctic seafloor based on the Smith and Sandwell (1997) grid background.
• Reference geopolitical claims in the western Australian Antarctic Territory for legal or policy research.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized 27-map series (GeoCat 71789), suggesting consistent cartographic methodology.
• Integrates authoritative data sources, including a 1997 bathymetric grid and NASA's Blue Marble imagery.
• Based on a formal continental shelf submission approved by an international commission in April 2008.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-06-05 07:53:36.767485; freshness should be verified.
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the data_gov_au platform.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-05 07:53:36.767485

Geography

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