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Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Mercator projection

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Map showing Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Heard Island and McDonald Islands, including a portion of the AAT. Mercator Projection, WGS84 Datum, Central Meridian 76°E, True Scale at 58°S. One of the 27 constituent maps of the "Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series" (GeoCat 71789). Depicting Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, treaties and various maritime zones. Background bathymetric image is derived from a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997. Background land imagery derived from Blue Marble, NASA's Earth Observatory. A0 sized .pdf downloadable from the web.

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Title Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Mercator projection
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/216cdd86-26ee-465f-b765-ceb1e8cd30cf
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        60.0,
        -70.0
      ],
      [
        92.0,
        -70.0
      ],
      [
        92.0,
        -46.0
      ],
      [
        60.0,
        -46.0
      ],
      [
        60.0,
        -70.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Mercator projection". 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-around-heard-island-and-mcdonald-islands-mercator-projection1