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  • A contoured (interval 10m) general reference map of the island showing settlement, mining areas, railways, roads and tracks of Christmas Island.

  • Earthquake of Christmas Island on 13th June 2013. Query from Dan Jaksa on 14th June regarding whether the earthquake fell in Australian waters Refer to Advice Register - 684

  • Map showing Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around the around Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island. 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 combination of the 2009 9 arc second bathymetric and topographic grid by GA and a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997. A0 sized .pdf downloadable from the web.

  • This map shows the boundary of the Maritime Security Zones for each port for the purpose of the Maritime Transport & Office Security Act 2003. 3 Sheets (Colour) May 2010 Not for Sale or public distribution Contact Manager LOSAMBA project, PMD.

  • This map has been created to update the old Crimes at Sea maps produced in 2000. These maps have been checked & approved by the Attorney Generals Office April 2013. There are 13 maps in the series plus the main map showing all of the Australian Territory. The AAT maps have not been released to the public as yet. Located in M:\Products\Australias Crimes Act Offshore Areas\products

  • Christmas Island lies about 1600 km north-north west of Australia's Northwest Cape and approximately 350 km south of Java in the northern part of the Wharton basin (IndianOcean). Recently Australia declared a 200 mile Fisheries Zone around the island andAGSO was asked to assess seabed morphology, sediment thickness and offshore mineralresources in this area. In February 1992 RAT "Rig Seismic" carried out a detailed survey ofthe region, providing relevant data for the required assessment. Eight seismic profiles wereacquired on this cruise, totalling about 2000 km, and almost twice as much bathymetricdata was recorded. In conjunction with seismic and bathymetic data collected by otherinstitutions, our data provides a good coverage of the area, which enabled us to compile anew bathymetric map and to produce the first sediment thickness map. Among the published bathymetric maps only three cover the Christmas Island area: 1)published by Udintsev (Geophysical Atlas of the Indian Ocean, 1975; 1:5,000 000), 2) byMammerickx et al. (1976, 1:5,000 000) and 3) 1:10,000 000 General BathymetricCompilation (GEBCO) map, published by the International Oceanographic Service (1982).All published bathymetric maps were compiled in the end of the 1970s and the beginningof the 1980s, and all of them were based on processing analog records of water depths andwere drafted manually. Moreover, most of the data for map compilation were collectedusing a sextant, and only a very limited using satellite navigation. The amount and quality of data collected by the end of the 1970s allowed the production ofthe fairly accurate 1:5,000 000 and 1:10,000 000 maps of the Indian Ocean listed above,however a lot of smaller features, such as individual seamounts, are missing on those maps.Insufficient data coverage led to broad extrapolation of bathymetric trends, sometimesderived purely from magnetic lineation pattern (Fig.1). To the east of Christmas Island thelack of information is particularly evident: all the maps differ in their interpretation of this area. New high quality data collected by "Rig Seismic", and digital water depths obtained fromthe USA National Geophysical Data Bank (NGDC), were used for compilation of a newrevised version of the bathymetric map on the Christmas Island area in a 1:1,000 000 scale.The new map (to be published in AGSO's Offshore Resources Map Series) contains a lotmore detail on the complex bathymetry of the area, and gives a more realistic picture ofseamount distribution and the structure of the Java Trench and Java's outer-arc ridge. Theamount of added information can be clearly deduced from comparison of Fig.1 and Fig.2.The time scale used in this report is that of McDougall (1974) and Fanoon et al. (1993).