Menzies SH51-05 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Lake Ballard, historic goldfields, and vast Northern Goldfields country—mapped around one of Australia’s most extraordinary outback landscapes

Covering Menzies, Lake Ballard, Kookynie, Niagara, and surrounding Northern Goldfields country, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of a landscape shaped by gold, pastoralism, salt lakes, and immense distances. It connects historic mining settlements and modern exploration areas with the Goldfields Highway, railway corridors, station roads, and an extensive network of remote tracks.

At the heart of the sheet is Lake Ballard, the dramatic salt lake internationally known for Antony Gormley’s Inside Australia installation. Beyond it lie low ranges, granite outcrops, broad plains, mine sites, pastoral infrastructure, and evocative gold-rush localities. The result is an indispensable regional reference for field professionals, emergency coordinators, heritage researchers, land managers, and experienced travellers following the Golden Quest Discovery Trail.

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 remote-area navigation.

Explore adjoining 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

• Iconic Lake Ballard coverage — the immense salt lake and surrounding access country shown within its full regional setting

• Rich goldfields context — historic towns, mining areas, pastoral infrastructure, highways, railways, and remote tracks brought together

• Professional-grade cartography — suited to exploration teams, emergency services, surveyors, environmental specialists, and land managers

• Dual coordinate systems — supports seamless transition between office planning and field navigation

• Printed in Australia — precision output, locally finished and quality-checked

🗺️ What you’ll see

• Menzies, Lake Ballard, Kookynie, Niagara, and historic goldfields localities

• Salt lakes, drainage features, granite outcrops, low ranges, and broad inland plains

• Mine areas, exploration tracks, pastoral infrastructure, airstrips, and isolated facilities

• Goldfields Highway, railway corridors, local roads, and sections of regional touring routes

• Vegetation patterns, reserves, station boundaries, and administrative features

• Contours, spot elevations, and clear grid overlays for accurate positioning and large-area planning

Remote travel note: Lake surfaces must not be driven on, and unsealed roads can close rapidly after rain. Mine roads, pastoral tracks, and exploration areas may require permission. Confirm access, road conditions, fire and weather risks, fuel range, water, communications, and emergency arrangements before departure.

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Menzies SH51-05

• 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, mineral-exploration, geology, and field-support teams

• Pastoral, environmental, and land-management professionals

• Emergency services and remote-area coordinators

• Surveyors, engineers, infrastructure planners, and contractors

• Heritage researchers, educators, artists, and students

• Goldfields travellers, photographers, four-wheel-drive tourers, 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.

Plan, brief, and explore the Menzies and Lake Ballard region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.