Australia's Northwest Shelf Maritime Jurisdiction Map, 2014

One of 27 constituent maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series, updated in June 2014. This A0-sized PDF map depicts Australia's continental shelf as proclaimed under the 2012 Seas and Submerged Lands Proclamation. The background combines bathymetric data from Geoscience Australia and Smith and Sandwell with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.

Use Cases

• Visualizing Australia's maritime jurisdiction boundaries based on the 2012 proclamation.
• Analyzing continental shelf extents for legal or resource assessment purposes.
• Integrating bathymetric and topographic background layers for marine spatial planning.
• Referencing official maritime boundaries for cartographic or educational materials.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized national map series comprising 27 constituent maps.
• Updated in June 2014 to conform with authoritative Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014 data.
• Background combines multiple data sources including a 2009 9 arc second grid and a 1997 grid.

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.
• Last updated 2026-06-16 20:02:54.272610; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia, via the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Collection Method

Cartographic compilation from legal proclamations and scientific grids.

Time Range

Map updated June 2014; background data from 1997 and 2009.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 20:02:54.272610; the underlying map data is from 2014.

Geography

Australia's Northwest Shelf maritime jurisdiction.