Australian Fisheries Enforcement Zones Map for Timor and Arafura Seas

Geoscience Australia produced this map for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority to assist with enforcement of Australia's maritime boundaries. The map includes an explanation of applicable boundaries and a list of their coordinates for the Timor and Arafura Seas. It was updated in 2019 to reflect the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty.

Use Cases

• Visualizing maritime enforcement zones based on the described boundary coordinates.
• Referencing treaty-defined boundaries for legal or compliance analysis based on the 2018 Australia/Timor-Leste treaty.
• Supporting fisheries management planning in the Timor and Arafura Seas based on the described jurisdictional areas.

Strengths

• Updated in 2019 to reflect a specific international treaty from 2018.
• Produced by the authoritative national agency Geoscience Australia for an enforcement authority.

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 bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing only on specific seas.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Originally produced in Indonesian and translated to English; specific creation method is not detailed.

Time Range

Updated in 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 15:29:37.337949; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Covers maritime boundaries in the Timor and Arafura Seas, relevant to Australia and Timor-Leste.