Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map with Extended Continental Shelf

One of 27 constituent maps in the Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series, depicting the extended continental shelf approved in April 2008. The map shows Australia's full maritime jurisdiction, including external territories and the Australian Antarctic Territory, with background bathymetry derived from Geoscience Australia and Smith & Sandwell 1997 data. It is an A0-sized PDF published by Geoscience Australia.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime boundaries for legal and policy analysis based on the depicted jurisdiction and continental shelf.
• Integrating bathymetric data for marine spatial planning based on the combined 2009 and 1997 background grids.
• Referencing Australia's territorial claims, including external territories and the AAT, for cartographic projects.

Strengths

• Part of a defined 27-map series (GeoCat 71789) providing structured context.
• Includes the extended continental shelf as formally approved by the UN Commission in April 2008.
• Background bathymetry combines data from Geoscience Australia (2009) and the Smith & Sandwell 1997 grid.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for computational analysis.
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Derived from bathymetric and topographic grids; published as a thematic map.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 19:03:29.476221; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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