Australia Maritime Jurisdiction Map with Continental Shelf Limits

A wall map depicts Australia's extended continental shelf approved in 2008, updated in March 2020 to reflect the 2018 Australia-Timor-Leste treaty. It shows territorial sea baselines and outer maritime zone limits on a seabed and land imagery background. The map is indicative only and not a definitive source.

Use Cases

• Visualize Australia's maritime jurisdiction boundaries, including the extended continental shelf limits, for geopolitical analysis.
• Compare the 2008 continental shelf approval with the 2018 treaty update reflected in the March 2020 map revision.
• Analyze the indicative territorial sea baselines and outer maritime zone limits depicted on the Etopo2 seabed and NASA Blue Marble land imagery.

Strengths

• Map updated in March 2020 to incorporate a recent 2018 international treaty.
• Based on authoritative seabed imagery (Etopo2) and land imagery (NASA Blue Marble).

Limitations

• The map is indicative only and explicitly not a definitive source; some limits may change.
• Data is a static map (PDF/HTML) without tabular rows or columns for quantitative analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Published thematic map.

Time Range

Continental shelf approved April 2008; map updated March 2020.

Freshness

Updated in March 2020; metadata last updated March 2026.

Geography

Australia's maritime jurisdiction.