Balfour Downs SF51-09 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Oakover River channel country, vast pastoral plains, and the Talawana Track—mapped with authority across the eastern Pilbara

Covering Balfour Downs and surrounding country in Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of remote pastoral and resource country shaped by immense distances and seasonal watercourses. From the Oakover River and its broad floodplains to low ranges, stony uplands, station tracks, and the Talawana Track corridor, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet brings together homesteads, roads, pastoral tracks, terrain, drainage systems, vegetation patterns, and named localities in one coherent view—valuable for station operations, environmental and cultural heritage work, geological field programs, infrastructure planning, emergency coordination, and 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 outback 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

• True regional perspective — river channels, floodplains, ranges, pastoral country, and access corridors shown in one coherent view

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, engineers, field teams, 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

• Contours and spot elevations across low ranges, breakaways, stony uplands, and broad pastoral plains

• The Oakover River, tributary creeks, floodplains, water points, and seasonal drainage systems

• The Talawana Track, station roads, resource access routes, homesteads, and named localities

• Vegetation patterns and administrative boundaries

• Clear grid overlays for accurate positioning and large-area planning

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Balfour Downs SF51-09

• Map currency: 2025

• Coordinates: Geographical & MGA

• Datum: GDA2020, AHD

• Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

• Sheet size: 800 mm (W) × 500 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

• Emergency services and remote-area coordinators

• Pastoral operators, station managers, and landholders

• Indigenous ranger, environmental, and cultural heritage teams

• Geologists, surveyors, engineers, and resource-sector field crews

• Infrastructure and regional access planners

• Experienced four-wheel-drive travellers and expedition planners

• Educators, researchers, and students

🇦🇺 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.

Plan fieldwork, coordinate remote operations, and explore the Balfour Downs region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.