Marble Bar SF50-08 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Ancient Pilbara geology, historic goldfield country, and remote river corridors—mapped with authority around Marble Bar

Covering Marble Bar, the Coongan and Shaw river systems, Wodgina, and the surrounding eastern Pilbara, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of country shaped by extraordinary geology, mining history, and extreme climatic conditions. From the Marble Bar townsite and its famous jasper outcrop to rugged greenstone belts, historic gold and tin fields, modern mineral operations, pastoral stations, and remote road corridors, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet brings together mining and exploration areas, the Marble Bar and Ripon Hills road corridors, station roads, remote tracks, river crossings, drainage systems, terrain, vegetation patterns, and named natural features in one coherent view—valuable for exploration, engineering projects, emergency coordination, environmental work, heritage research, 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 — town infrastructure, mineral fields, river systems, ranges, and remote access routes shown in one coherent view

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, engineers, exploration 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 ancient greenstone belts, rocky hills, ridges, gorges, and broad Pilbara plains

• Marble Bar, Wodgina, pastoral stations, and surrounding mining and heritage localities

• Coongan River, Shaw River, pools, creeks, floodways, and seasonal drainage systems

• Mineral operations, historic gold and tin fields, exploration areas, and associated infrastructure

• Marble Bar Road, Ripon Hills Road, station roads, remote tracks, boundaries, vegetation patterns, and clear grid overlays for accurate positioning

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Marble Bar SF50-08

• 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, exploration teams, and surveyors

• Engineers, contractors, and infrastructure planners

• Emergency services and regional operations coordinators

• Environmental consultants, pastoral managers, and government agencies

• Heritage researchers, historians, educators, and students

• 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 mineral heritage, understand the river country, and navigate the Marble Bar region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.