Australia Maritime Boundaries

Date 
Wednesday, 7 June, 2017
Use Type 
Use Case
Summary 

Geoscience Australia has the primary role in the delineation of Australia's domestic and international maritime limits and boundaries. An output of this activity is the development of the Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) data.

Use Case-Requirement Category 
Agency/Working Group or Committee 
Agency Duty 
AMB is a digital representation of Australia's limits and boundaries as established under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 and associated proclamations. The data also include a representation of the limits by which the scheduled and offshore areas of each of the States and of the Northern Territory are determined under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (OPGGSA). The data have been published by Geoscience Australia in consultation with other relevant Commonwealth Government agencies including the Attorney-General's Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian Hydrographic Office.
Use case portfolio 

Policy, Administration, Planning

How spatial Data Assists 

AMB is a digital representation of Australia's limits and boundaries as established under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 and associated proclamations. The data also include a representation of the limits by which the scheduled and offshore areas of each of the States and of the Northern Territory are determined under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (OPGGSA).
The data have been published by Geoscience Australia in consultation with other relevant Commonwealth Government agencies including the Attorney-General's Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian Hydrographic Office.

Benefit Realised 

Australian Maritime boundaries are a digital representation of Australias Limits and Boundaries established under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 and associated proclamations. These datasets are created to assist in mapping and decision making across integrated government and non-government users in the Australian Marine Jurisdiction.

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