One of the 27 constituent maps in the 'Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series'. It depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, treaties, and various maritime zones. The background bathymetric image is derived from a combination of the 2009 9 arc second bathymetric and topographic grid by GA and a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
Use Cases
- Visualizing maritime boundaries based on treaty and continental shelf data
- Analyzing bathymetric data for oceanographic research based on the combined GA and Smith and Sandwell grids
- Mapping jurisdictional zones for legal or policy analysis based on the depicted maritime zones
Strengths
- Part of a 27-map series providing a structured collection
- Background imagery derived from specific, named bathymetric and topographic grids (GA 2009, Smith and Sandwell 1997)
- Includes legally defined maritime zones and continental shelf boundaries approved in April 2008
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 14:42:04.027736; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Australia's Northwest Shelf