Australia's maritime jurisdiction map depicts the nation's extended continental shelf boundaries approved in April 2008. It is one of 27 constituent maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series. The background combines bathymetry from Geoscience Australia and W.H.F. Smith and D.T. Sandwell, 1997, with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble.
Use Cases
- Visualize maritime boundaries for legal and policy analysis based on the depicted continental shelf.
- Integrate bathymetric data for oceanographic studies based on the combined 9 arc second and Smith/Sandwell grids.
- Create reference maps for educational or public information purposes based on the A0-sized wall map format.
- Analyze jurisdictional overlaps with external territories based on the inclusion of the AAT and other territories.
Strengths
- Map is part of a standardized series of 27 constituent maps, suggesting systematic coverage.
- Background integrates multiple authoritative data sources: Geoscience Australia's 2009 bathymetry, Smith/Sandwell 1997 grid, and NASA Blue Marble.
- Depicts a legally defined feature: the extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008.
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.
- Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 00:27:54.591024; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia, including external Territories and the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT)