Carnarvon Special SG49-04 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Gascoyne River country, dramatic Quobba coastlines, and Shark Bay islands—mapped with authority around Carnarvon and Lake Macleod

Covering Carnarvon, the lower Gascoyne River, the Quobba coast, southern Lake Macleod, Bernier Island, Dorre Island, and the surrounding pastoral district, this special-format AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of a distinctive meeting point between river delta, arid coast, offshore conservation islands, salt-lake country, and working rangelands. From Carnarvon’s horticultural areas and the Gascoyne floodplain to rugged coastal cliffs, pastoral homesteads, remote tracks, and island shorelines, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet combines a non-standard coastal and island extent with the adjoining mainland in one coherent view. Town infrastructure, pastoral leases, roads, tracks, waterways, coastal reserves, contours, vegetation patterns, airfields, and administrative boundaries are shown together—valuable for emergency coordination, conservation management, pastoral operations, infrastructure planning, environmental fieldwork, logistics, research, tourism operations, 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 coastal and island coverage — Carnarvon, the Gascoyne delta, Quobba coast, Lake Macleod, and offshore islands shown in one regional view

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, environmental teams, engineers, 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, offshore islands, cliffs, beaches, dunes, river floodplains, salt-lake margins, broad plains, and low ranges

• Carnarvon, South Carnarvon, Babbage Island, Quobba station country, pastoral homesteads, and remote localities

• The Gascoyne River and delta, Whitlock and other coastal creeks, floodways, waterholes, claypans, and seasonal drainage lines

• North West Coastal Highway, Carnarvon–Mullewa Road, Blowholes Road, station routes, river crossings, coastal tracks, and airfields

• Point Quobba, Cape Cuvier, southern Lake Macleod, Bernier and Dorre islands, conservation reserves, pastoral boundaries, and clear grid overlays

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Carnarvon Special SG49-04

• 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, coastal, conservation, and land-management professionals

• Pastoral operators, station managers, and rural contractors

• Emergency services and regional operations coordinators

• Engineers, surveyors, road crews, and infrastructure planners

• Horticultural operators, researchers, and field-survey teams

• Four-wheel-drive travellers, coastal visitors, and 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.

Follow the Gascoyne River, trace the rugged coastline, and navigate the Carnarvon region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.