Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Including External Territories

One map from the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series depicting the country's extended continental shelf as approved in April 2008. The background combines bathymetry data from Geoscience Australia (2009) and Smith & Sandwell (1997) with land imagery from NASA's Blue Marble. It is an A0-sized PDF available for download via the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Visualize maritime boundaries for legal and diplomatic purposes based on the depiction of Australia's maritime jurisdiction.
• Analyze continental shelf extents for resource exploration based on the approved continental shelf limits.
• Create educational or reference materials for maritime geography based on the combined bathymetry and topographic background.

Strengths

• Map is part of a formal 27-map series (GeoCat 71789), suggesting a structured collection.
• Incorporates authoritative bathymetry data from Geoscience Australia (2009) and Smith & Sandwell (1997).
• Depicts legally significant boundaries 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 2026-06-16 20:32:35.559907; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia and its external territories, including the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT).