Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction and Search and Rescue Region Map, 2019

Geoscience Australia Data produced a map showing the full extent of Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction for the Australian Customs Service. The map was updated in 2019 to incorporate changes from the 2018 Australia Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty. It includes a simplified legend showing confirmed and unconfirmed areas as of 2012.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime boundaries for operational planning based on the described jurisdiction map.
• Analyzing changes in territorial claims based on the 2018 treaty update mentioned in the description.
• Referencing Search and Rescue (SAR) region extents for emergency response coordination.
• Studying the distinction between confirmed and unconfirmed maritime areas as indicated in the 2012 legend.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative national geoscience organization, Geoscience Australia Data.
• Explicitly updated in 2019 to reflect a major international treaty from 2018.
• Created for a specific operational agency, the Australian Customs Service (Border Protection).

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.
• The underlying spatial data's resolution and source scale are not specified.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Produced as a cartographic map for the Australian Customs Service.

Time Range

Map reflects data up to 2019, with a legend referencing 2012 information.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 14:32:57.164677; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia's full maritime jurisdiction, including areas affected by the Timor-Leste treaty.