Cue SG50-15 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Historic Murchison goldfields, remote station country, and vital inland corridors—mapped with authority around Cue

Covering Cue, Big Bell, Day Dawn, Lake Austin, and the surrounding central Murchison, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of country shaped by more than a century of gold mining, pastoral activity, and long-distance inland travel. From Cue’s heritage streetscape and the historic mining settlements of Big Bell and Day Dawn to station roads, salt lakes, rocky ridges, and broad rangeland plains, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet brings together towns and heritage localities, pastoral infrastructure, mine sites and historic workings, the Great Northern Highway, regional roads, station tracks, drainage systems, terrain, vegetation patterns, and named natural features in one coherent view—valuable for mining operations, heritage research, emergency coordination, pastoral management, logistics planning, 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 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 — goldfields, pastoral leases, historic settlements, highway access, and remote field routes shown in one coherent view

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, exploration 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

• Contours and spot elevations across rocky hills, low ridges, breakaways, and broad Murchison plains

• Cue, Big Bell, Day Dawn, Reedy, Tuckanarra, and surrounding pastoral and mining localities

• Mine sites, historic gold workings, pastoral infrastructure, and heritage places

• Great Northern Highway, regional roads, station tracks, mine access routes, and remote field connections

• Lake Austin, salt flats, creeks, floodouts, claypans, vegetation patterns, administrative boundaries, and clear grid overlays for accurate positioning

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Cue SG50-15

• 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

• Mining operators, geologists, and exploration teams

• Pastoral managers and remote-property operators

• Emergency services and regional operations coordinators

• Engineers, contractors, transport teams, and infrastructure planners

• Heritage researchers, environmental consultants, surveyors, and government agencies

• Four-wheel-drive travellers and experienced 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.

Explore the goldfield heritage, understand the station country, and navigate the Cue region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.