Australian Ocean Data Network provides a map showing the full extent of Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction, produced for the Australian Customs Service (Border Protection). The map includes a simplified legend showing confirmed and unconfirmed areas as of 2012 and was updated in 2019 to reflect the 2018 Australia Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty. It is available in HTML and PDF formats.
Use Cases
- Visualizing Australia's Search and Rescue Region for operational planning based on the described maritime jurisdiction map.
- Analyzing changes in maritime boundaries following the 2018 Australia Timor-Leste treaty based on the 2019 map update.
- Referencing confirmed and unconfirmed maritime zones for legal or policy analysis based on the 2012 legend information.
Strengths
- Includes updates from a 2019 treaty, providing current boundary information.
- Produced for an official government agency (Australian Customs Service), suggesting authoritative sourcing.
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.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Time Range
- Reflects boundaries up to 2019
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-16 21:57:44.128599; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia's maritime jurisdiction