Australia-Timor-Leste Maritime Boundary Treaty Data, 2019

Geoscience Australia delineates Australia's maritime limits and boundaries. The Australian Maritime Boundaries database includes the treaty ratified with Timor-Leste on 30 August 2019. This product is a digital representation of that treaty, published in consultation with Commonwealth agencies.

Use Cases

• Visualize maritime treaty boundaries based on the treaty information included in the database.
• Analyze jurisdictional limits for maritime resource management based on the treaty delineation.
• Integrate treaty boundaries into maritime spatial information systems based on the AMSIS platform reference.
• Verify operational equivalence of coordinate datums based on the GDA94/WGS84 specification.

Strengths

• Includes the specific treaty ratified on 30 August 2019.
• Coordinates are supplied in the GDA94 datum, operationally equivalent to WGS84.
• Geographical extent is defined between latitude 9.5 S to 11.5 S and longitude 126 E to 128.5 E.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia, Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Developed as part of the Australian Maritime Boundaries database.

Time Range

Current September 2019.

Freshness

Current epoch is 2019.

Geography

Australia and Timor-Leste maritime boundary area.