Brief description
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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Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeededIssued: 2014
text: westlimit=105.5; southlimit=-26.4; eastlimit=159.5; northlimit=-8.0; projection=WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
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https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/81849/81849_North_Aust_2014.pdf
- URI : pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/81849
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