Kirkalocka SH50-03 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Historic Murchison goldfields, remote pastoral stations, and vital highway corridors—mapped with authority from Kirkalocka to Mount Magnet

Covering Kirkalocka Station, Mount Magnet, the Kirkalocka gold district, and the surrounding Murchison, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of country shaped by pastoral history, mineral exploration, and long-distance inland transport. From the Great Northern Highway and Mount Magnet’s mining infrastructure to station roads, historic workings, rocky greenstone terrain, and broad rangeland plains, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet brings together towns and service points, pastoral infrastructure, active and historic mining areas, the Great Northern Highway, the Geraldton–Mount Magnet Road connection, station roads, remote tracks, drainage systems, terrain, vegetation patterns, and named natural features in one coherent view—valuable for mining operations, emergency coordination, engineering projects, 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 — mining districts, pastoral leases, highway corridors, rugged terrain, and remote access 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 greenstone belts, rocky hills, low ranges, breakaways, and broad Murchison plains

• Mount Magnet, Kirkalocka Station, pastoral homesteads, and surrounding mining and field localities

• Kirkalocka and Mount Magnet mineral operations, historic gold workings, exploration areas, and associated infrastructure

• Great Northern Highway, the Geraldton–Mount Magnet Road connection, station roads, mine access routes, and remote tracks

• Creeks, floodouts, claypans, vegetation patterns, pastoral 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: Kirkalocka SH50-03

• 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

• 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.

Follow the highway corridors, understand the goldfield and station country, and navigate the Kirkalocka region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.