Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map for the Antarctic Territory West

One of 27 maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series' (GeoCat 71789), depicting maritime zones and the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008. The map was created by Geoscience Australia Data, with a background derived from bathymetric data by Smith and Sandwell (1997) and NASA's Blue Marble land imagery. It is available as an A0-sized PDF downloadable from the web.

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 the western Australian Antarctic Territory based on the official map series.
• Integrate geospatial layers for Antarctic mapping projects based on the provided maritime jurisdiction data.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps providing consistent jurisdictional mapping.
• Based on an extended continental shelf approval by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.
• Background imagery combines bathymetric data from a 1997 grid and NASA's Blue Marble land imagery.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• The primary format is a static PDF (A0 size), which may require extraction for computational use.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Based on continental shelf approval from April 2008.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 16:22:08.702022; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime jurisdiction off the western portion of the Australian Antarctic Territory.