Maritime Boundaries and Treaty Zones in the Torres Strait, 2002

A geospatial map depicting Australia's jurisdictional maritime boundaries and zones in the Torres Strait region. The data includes the seabed and fisheries jurisdiction line and a protected zone established under the 1985 Australia-Papua New Guinea Treaty. The map, sourced from Geoscience Australia's AMSIS system, has a scale of 1:300,000 and was produced in 2002.

Use Cases

• Analyze maritime jurisdiction and treaty compliance based on depicted boundary lines.
• Study traditional fishing rights and environmental protection based on the defined protected zone.
• Perform spatial analysis of ocean governance based on the geographic coordinates and Mercator projection.

Strengths

• Specific geographic coverage from 9S to 11S and 141 15E to 144 30E.
• Clear source attribution to Geoscience Australia's Australian Marine Spatial Information System (AMSIS).
• Explicit reference to legal foundations: the 1985 Treaty and the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.

Limitations

• Data currency is 2002; boundaries may have changed.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Available only in PDF and HTML formats, which may limit machine-readability.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, via Geoscience Australia's AMSIS.

Collection Method

Sourced from the Australian Marine Spatial Information System (AMSIS).

Time Range

Currency: 2002.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 21:33:31.907962; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Torres Strait, coverage: 9S to 11S; 141 15E to 144 30E.