Neale SH51-04 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Neale Junction, legendary desert highways and protected Great Victoria Desert wilderness—mapped with authority across remote Western Australia

Covering Neale Junction, sections of the Anne Beadell and Connie Sue Highways, and the surrounding Great Victoria Desert, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map provides an authoritative regional view of one of Australia’s most isolated desert crossroads.

The sheet brings together Neale Junction Nature Reserve, extensive sand ridges, spinifex plains, salt-lake systems, rocky breakaways and extraordinarily remote access tracks. It is an essential reference for expedition planning, conservation management, emergency coordination, geological fieldwork and experienced four-wheel-drive travellers.

At 1:250,000 scale—where 1 cm represents 2.5 km—this series offers the largest published topographic scale covering the entire Australian continent. It is particularly valuable for regional planning, protected-area management, remote logistics and understanding the relationship between the desert’s major tracks and surrounding terrain.

Not sure which sheet you need? Use the official AUSTopo 1:250,000 Map Index to locate the correct map for your area.

🧭 Why this map stands out

• Current 2025 mapping — prepared using modern Australian mapping standards and datums

• Iconic desert crossroads — Neale Junction and sections of two legendary outback routes shown in one coherent regional view

• Exceptional wilderness context — valuable for interpreting dunes, breakaways, dry lake systems and immense desert distances

• Professional-quality cartography — suitable for operational planning, research, fieldwork and geographic reference

• Dual coordinate information — supports both office-based planning and practical field navigation

• Printed in Australia — produced at high resolution, carefully finished and individually quality-checked

🗺️ What you’ll see

• Neale Junction, where the Anne Beadell and Connie Sue Highways intersect

• Neale Junction Nature Reserve and surrounding Great Victoria Desert country

• Remote desert tracks and access routes originally established across the interior

• Parallel sand ridges, sandplains and inter-dunal swales

• Salt lakes, major valley floors, breakaways and occasional rocky hills

• Spinifex grasslands, marble gum, mallee and mulga vegetation

• Contours, spot elevations, place names and protected-area boundaries

• Clearly defined grid information for positioning and large-area planning

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Neale

• Sheet reference: SH51-04

• Map currency: 2025

• Coordinates: Geographical and MGA

• Datum: GDA2020 and AHD

• Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

• Sheet size: 800 mm wide × 500 mm high

• Sheet finder: View the AUSTopo 1:250,000 Map Index

💧 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 this map is for

• Experienced four-wheel-drive travellers and desert expedition planners

• Conservation and protected-area managers

• Emergency services and remote-area coordinators

• Geologists, ecologists and field survey teams

• Infrastructure and communications planners

• Researchers and historians studying Len Beadell’s desert-road network

🇦🇺 Our commitment

Every AUSTopo map supplied by Mapworld is printed and finished in Australia. Each map is colour-managed for accuracy, individually checked and carefully packed so it arrives ready for professional, educational or field use.

Plan, research and explore the Neale region with confidence. Select your preferred finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your field kit or reference collection today.