Hyden SI50-04 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Wave Rock, ancient granite country, and the transition from Wheatbelt farms to remote eastern woodlands—mapped with authority across Western Australia

Covering Hyden, Karlgarin, Varley, and the surrounding eastern Wheatbelt, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of a landscape famous for monumental granite formations, broad agricultural plains, salt lakes, and extensive mallee and woodland country. From Wave Rock, The Humps, and Mulka’s Cave to Forrestania, Mount Holland, Lake Cronin, and the approaches to the Holland Track, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet brings together townsites, regional roads, farm tracks, remote access routes, conservation reserves, mining and exploration areas, drainage systems, terrain, vegetation patterns, and named localities in one coherent view—valuable for tourism planning, agricultural operations, environmental work, bushfire coordination, field programs, and regional 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 — granite outcrops, farming districts, salt lakes, woodland reserves, and remote routes shown in one coherent view

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, planners, 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 granite outcrops, low ranges, broad farming plains, and woodland country

• Wave Rock, Hyden Rock, The Humps, Mount Holland, King Rocks, and numerous named granite features

• Lake Cronin, Lake Carmody, Lake Varley, Lake Hurlstone, and associated salt-lake drainage systems

• Hyden, Karlgarin, Varley, Forrestania, regional roads, farm tracks, and remote access routes

• Nature reserves, 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: Hyden SI50-04

• 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

• Regional travellers, tourism operators, and journey planners

• Four-wheel-drive travellers exploring the Holland Track approaches

• Farmers, agronomists, landholders, and agricultural contractors

• Emergency services, bushfire planners, and regional coordinators

• Conservation managers, ecologists, and environmental field teams

• Geologists, prospectors, surveyors, and resource-sector crews

• Educators, researchers, historians, 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, explore the granite country, and navigate the Hyden region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.