Treaties - Australian Maritime Boundaries 2020: International Treaty Boundaries

Australia's international maritime treaty boundaries, including waters adjacent to the mainland, offshore islands, and External Territories. The dataset is a digital representation developed by Geoscience Australia in consultation with other Commonwealth agencies and was updated in June 2020 to include the 2018 Australia Timor-Leste Treaty.

Use Cases

• Mapping maritime jurisdictions based on treaty-defined boundaries.
• Analyzing changes in maritime zones based on the inclusion of the 2018 Timor-Leste Treaty.
• Harmonizing maritime data for regional planning based on the WGS84 datum.

Strengths

• Includes the 2018 Australia Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty update.
• Coverage spans the whole Australian marine jurisdiction from approximately 8°S to 70°S latitude and 39°E to 174°E longitude.
• Published by Geoscience Australia in consultation with relevant Commonwealth Government agencies.

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, Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Primary delineation of maritime limits and boundaries.

Time Range

Epoch 2020

Freshness

Currency: June 2020.

Geography

Australia including all external territories, marine jurisdiction.