Minilya Special SF49-16 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Ningaloo Reef coastlines, remote station country, and the Minilya River corridor—mapped with authority from Coral Bay to the northern Gascoyne

Covering Coral Bay, Point Cloates, Warroora and Gnaraloo station country, northern Lake Macleod, and the Minilya district, this special-format AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of one of Western Australia’s most remarkable coastal landscapes. From the reef-fringed Ningaloo coast and sweeping bays to coastal dunes, pastoral homesteads, seasonal river systems, salt-lake margins, and long remote access roads, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet uses an extended portrait format to unite a long stretch of coastline with its adjoining pastoral interior. Coral Bay, station properties, protected areas, roads, tracks, waterways, contours, vegetation patterns, coastal features, and administrative boundaries are brought together in one coherent view—valuable for conservation management, emergency coordination, tourism operations, pastoral work, environmental fieldwork, infrastructure planning, research, logistics, and serious 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

• Special extended coverage — Ningaloo waters, remote coastal stations, Lake Macleod, and the Minilya corridor shown in one continuous view

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

• Detailed coastlines, reef-fringed bays, beaches, dunes, coastal plains, salt-lake margins, low ridges, and breakaway country

• Coral Bay, Minilya, Cardabia, Warroora and Gnaraloo station country, pastoral homesteads, outstations, and remote localities

• The Ningaloo coast, Minilya River, Lyndon River, seasonal creeks, floodways, waterholes, claypans, and drainage lines

• Coral Bay Road, Minilya–Exmouth Road, North West Coastal Highway connections, station roads, coastal access tracks, and remote airstrips

• Point Cloates, northern Lake Macleod, Ningaloo Marine Park, coastal reserves, pastoral boundaries, vegetation patterns, and clear grid overlays

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Minilya Special SF49-16

• Map currency: 2025

• Coordinates: Geographical & MGA

• Datum: GDA2020, AHD

• Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

• Sheet size: 500 mm (W) × 900 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

• Environmental, marine, conservation, and land-management professionals

• Pastoral operators, station managers, and rural contractors

• Emergency services and remote-area coordinators

• Tourism operators, researchers, and coastal field teams

• Engineers, surveyors, road crews, and infrastructure planners

• Four-wheel-drive travellers, Ningaloo visitors, 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.

Trace the Ningaloo coast, understand the station country, and navigate the Minilya region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.