Newdegate SI50-08 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Expansive grain country, ancient salt-lake chains, and vast mallee reserves—mapped with authority across Western Australia’s southeastern Wheatbelt

Covering Newdegate, Lake King, and the surrounding southeastern Wheatbelt, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of productive agricultural country interwoven with remarkable salt-lake systems and extensive native bushland. From Newdegate’s grain and transport corridors to Lake King, Lake Magenta Nature Reserve, broad farming plains, and chains of ephemeral lakes, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet brings together townsites, regional roads, the grain railway, farm access routes, conservation reserves, drainage systems, terrain, vegetation patterns, and named localities in one coherent view—valuable for agricultural planning, environmental management, bushfire coordination, infrastructure work, field research, and regional 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 — agricultural districts, salt lakes, conservation reserves, and transport corridors shown in one coherent view

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, planners, field 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 broad farming plains, low rises, sandplains, and mallee country

• Lake Biddy, Lake Stubbs, Lake Buchan, Lake Lockhart, Lake Magenta, and associated palaeodrainage systems

• Newdegate and Lake King, regional roads, the grain railway, farm tracks, and named rural localities

• Lake Magenta, Lake King, Dunn Rock, and other conservation reserves and native vegetation blocks

• Administrative boundaries and clear grid overlays for accurate positioning and large-area planning

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Newdegate SI50-08

• 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

• Farmers, agronomists, landholders, and agricultural contractors

• Emergency services, bushfire planners, and regional coordinators

• Conservation managers, ecologists, and environmental field teams

• Surveyors, engineers, and transport or infrastructure planners

• Government agencies and local authorities

• Regional travellers, researchers, educators, and students

• Prospectors and geological field crews

🇦🇺 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 fieldwork, manage regional operations, and explore the Newdegate district with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.