Australia's Maritime Zones and Boundaries Map Edition 5, 2014

Geoscience Australia's Australia's Maritime Zones Edition 5 is a digital map superseding the 2013 edition. It depicts Australia's territorial sea baseline, maritime limits, and continental shelf boundaries as established under the Sea and Submerged Lands Act 1973, including agreements with neighboring nations. The map covers Australia's maritime jurisdiction from Heard and McDonald Islands to Norfolk Island and from the Torres Strait to the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime jurisdictional claims based on the described territorial sea baseline and continental shelf limits.
• Analyzing international maritime boundary arrangements based on listed agreements with Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and others.
• Studying the evolution of maritime zones based on updates from the 2013 edition and the 2008 Commission confirmation.
• Mapping the extent of Australia's maritime claims based on described geographic extremes.

Strengths

• Derived from the authoritative Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) 2014 data from Geoscience Australia.
• Incorporates continental shelf limits confirmed by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on 9 April 2008.
• Explicitly lists maritime boundary arrangements with five neighboring countries or 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.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia's Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) 2014 data.

Collection Method

Digital representation derived from legal boundaries established under the Sea and Submerged Lands Act 1973.

Time Range

Boundaries current as of 2014 data, with a key confirmation in 2008.

Freshness

Currency is listed as 2014; last metadata update was 2026-06-23.

Geography

Australia's maritime jurisdiction, including offshore territories and Antarctic claims.