Australia's Maritime Zones Edition 4, 2013 Geospatial Map

Australia's maritime zones and boundaries, derived from Geoscience Australia's Australian Maritime Boundaries version 2.0 data. The map shows territorial sea baselines, maritime limits, and continental shelf limits confirmed in 2008, covering from Heard and McDonald Islands to Norfolk Island and the Australian Antarctic Territory. It was published by the Australian Ocean Data Network and is current as of 2013.

Use Cases

• Visualizing Australia's territorial sea baselines based on the Sea and Submerged Lands Act 1973.
• Analyzing continental shelf limits confirmed by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in 2008.
• Studying maritime boundary arrangements with Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, France, and New Zealand.
• Mapping the extent of maritime zones from the Torres Strait to the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Strengths

• Based on authoritative source data from Geoscience Australia's Australian Maritime Boundaries version 2.0.
• Incorporates continental shelf limits confirmed by an international commission in April 2008.
• Explicitly lists maritime boundary arrangements with five neighboring countries and territories.

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.
• Last updated 2026-06-23 03:11:44.516568; freshness should be verified as the underlying data is from 2013.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, derived from Geoscience Australia.

Collection Method

Digital representation derived from Geoscience Australia's Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) version 2.0 data.

Freshness

2013 (web map)

Geography

Australia, its maritime zones, and neighboring regions.