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Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off Northern Australia 2014

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Map showing Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off Northern Australia. Updated in June 2014 from "Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off Northern Australia" (GeoCat 70183) to conform with "Australian Maritime Boundaries 2014" data by Geoscience Australia. This includes areas contiguous to the north of the continent and as far west as Christmas Island, but excludes areas around Cocos (Keeling) Islands and areas west of Christmas Island. One of the 27 constituent maps of the "Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series" (GeoCat 71789). Depicting Australia's continental shelf as proclaimed in the "Seas and Submerged Lands (Limits of Continental Shelf) Proclamation 2012" established under the "Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973". Background bathymetry image is derived from a combination of the 2009 9 arc second bathymetry and topographic grid by Geoscience Australia and a grid by W.H.F. Smith and D.T. Sandwell, 1997. Background land imagery derived from Blue Marble, NASA's Earth Observatory. 2800mm x 1050mm (for 42" plotter) sized .pdf downloadable from the web.

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Title Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off Northern Australia 2014
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c1889a1a-8cb0-412c-bb42-231a0ff8c8f7
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction off Northern Australia 2014". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australias-maritime-jurisdiction-off-northern-australia-20141