Australia-Timor-Leste Maritime Boundary Treaty Data, 2019

Geoscience Australia's 2019 digital representation of the maritime boundary treaty between Australia and Timor-Leste. The data covers a geographical extent between approximately 9.5°S to 11.5°S latitude and 126°E to 128.5°E longitude. It is published in ESRI Geodatabase and Shapefile formats with coordinates in the GDA94 datum.

Use Cases

• Visualizing the ratified maritime boundary based on the treaty information.
• Conducting spatial analysis for marine resource management within the defined treaty area.
• Integrating treaty boundaries into maritime information systems like AMSIS for operational use.
• Supporting legal and diplomatic research on the Australia-Timor-Leste maritime agreement.

Strengths

• Data represents the specific treaty ratified on 30 August 2019.
• Product specifications provide a clear geographical extent with defined latitude and longitude limits.
• Data is published by the authoritative national agency, Geoscience Australia, in consultation with other government departments.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description does not specify the number of features or rows in the dataset.
• Data may reflect the specific geographic and treaty bias inherent to its source.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia, published via the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Collection Method

Delineation of international maritime limits and boundaries as part of the Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) database development.

Time Range

Current as of September 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 16:33:11.952556; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritime boundary area between Australia and Timor-Leste, approximately between 9.5°S to 11.5°S and 126°E to 128.5°E.