Monkey Mia Special SG49-12 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

World Heritage coastlines, remote island country, and legendary Shark Bay destinations—mapped with authority from Steep Point to Monkey Mia

Covering Denham, Monkey Mia, François Peron Peninsula, Dirk Hartog Island, Steep Point, Hamelin Pool, Useless Loop, and the surrounding Shark Bay coast, this special-format AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of one of Australia’s most extraordinary natural landscapes. From turquoise bays, red coastal cliffs, vast seagrass waters, and offshore islands to remote four-wheel-drive tracks, pastoral properties, conservation reserves, and small regional communities, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet combines islands, peninsulas, marine waters, and mainland access routes in one coherent view. Towns, roads, tracks, airfields, protected areas, pastoral leases, coastlines, contours, vegetation patterns, salt flats, and administrative boundaries are shown together—valuable for conservation management, emergency coordination, tourism operations, environmental research, infrastructure planning, heritage work, logistics, and serious remote-area navigation.

At 1:250,000 scale (1 cm = 2.5 km), this is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire Australian continent—ideal for regional planning, land management, emergency coordination, and serious navigation.

Explore adjoining sheets and national coverage with the official AUSTopo 1:250,000 map index.

🧭 Why this map stands out

• Updated mapping (2025) — aligned to modern Australian datums for confident, current use

• Special World Heritage coverage — Shark Bay’s islands, peninsulas, marine reserves, communities, and access routes shown in one regional view

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, environmental teams, tourism operators, and land managers

• Dual coordinate systems — seamless transition between office planning and field navigation

• Printed in Australia — precision output, locally finished and quality-checked

🗺️ What you’ll see

• Detailed coastlines, islands, bays, tidal flats, saltpans, dunes, coastal cliffs, broad plains, and low ridges

• Denham, Monkey Mia, Useless Loop, Nanga, Tamala station country, remote homesteads, and regional infrastructure

• Shark Bay’s gulfs and inlets, Big Lagoon, Hamelin Pool, seasonal creeks, birridas, claypans, and drainage lines

• Shark Bay Road, Monkey Mia Road, Useless Loop Road, national-park tracks, island routes, airfields, and remote coastal access

• Dirk Hartog and Faure islands, Steep Point, François Peron National Park, Shell Beach, marine reserves, pastoral boundaries, and clear grid overlays

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Monkey Mia Special SG49-12

• Map currency: 2025

• Coordinates: Geographical & MGA

• Datum: GDA2020, AHD

• Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

• Sheet size: 700 mm (W) × 750 mm (H)

💧 Field-Ready Options for Rugged Use

Choose the format that best suits your intended use—from lightweight trip planning to demanding all-weather fieldwork.

✅ Standard Paper

• Printed on 100 gsm FSC® coated paper

• Produces crisp, clear text and finely defined map symbols

• Lightweight and convenient for general reference or protected field use

• An economical choice for trip planning, research and office applications

✅ Waterproof and Tearproof Tyvek®

• Made from genuine DuPont™ Tyvek®, an advanced synthetic material composed of pure polyethylene fibres

• Waterproof, tear-resistant, foldable and extremely lightweight

• Printed using HP pigment-based inks for a permanent waterproof finish

• Suitable for backpacks, vehicles and exposed field conditions

• Ideal for bushwalkers, emergency personnel and outdoor professionals

• Provides exceptional durability without the weight and bulk of lamination

✅ Laminated

• Fully encapsulated between two 80-micron gloss laminate sheets

• Highly resistant to water, stains, smudges and tearing

• Draw on the surface with whiteboard markers for route planning or instruction

• Use Mark-It-Dots to identify campsites, hazards, access points or other locations without marking the map permanently

• Wipeable and reusable

• Ideal for offices, classrooms, operations centres and repeated field reference

🎯 Who it’s for

• Environmental, marine, conservation, and land-management professionals

• Park rangers, tourism operators, and heritage teams

• Emergency services and remote-area coordinators

• Pastoral operators, station managers, and rural contractors

• Researchers, surveyors, infrastructure planners, and government agencies

• Four-wheel-drive travellers, island visitors, and Shark Bay expedition planners

🇦🇺 Our commitment

Every AUSTopo map we supply is printed and finished in Australia, colour-managed for accuracy, hand-checked, and packed with care—so it arrives ready for real-world use.

Trace the peninsulas, understand the island landscapes, and navigate Shark Bay with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.