Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 - Australian Maritime Boundaries 20

Geoscience Australia developed the Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) 2014a dataset as a digital representation of scheduled and offshore areas defined under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Storage Act 2006. The data product covers the entire Australian marine jurisdiction, including waters adjacent to the mainland, offshore islands, and External Territories, with coordinates in the GDA94 datum. This version, published in May 2014, incorporates technical amendments based on user feedback.

Use Cases

• Mapping legal maritime zones for offshore petroleum exploration based on the scheduled areas defined in the Act.
• Analyzing the geographic extent of Australia's marine jurisdiction for environmental or sovereignty studies.
• Integrating maritime boundary data with other geospatial layers for marine spatial planning.

Strengths

• Data is produced by the authoritative national agency Geoscience Australia in consultation with other Commonwealth departments.
• Coverage is explicitly defined as the whole Australian marine jurisdiction, approximately between 8°S to 70°S latitude and 39°E to 174°E longitude.
• The dataset is a GIS product provided in ESRI Geodatabase format, suitable for professional spatial analysis.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection after download.
• The data currency is May 2014, and its legal precedence is subordinate to the actual legislation in case of inconsistency.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia, developed in consultation with the Attorney-General's Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Australian Hydrographic Office.

Collection Method

Delineation of Australia's domestic and international maritime limits and boundaries, resulting in a digital GIS data product.

Time Range

Currency May 2014.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 02:01:00.884318; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australian marine jurisdiction, including mainland, offshore islands, and External Territories, approximately 8°S to 70°S and 39°E to 174°E.