Percival SF51-08 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Canning Stock Route history, sweeping salt lakes, and immense desert corridors—mapped with authority across the Great Sandy Desert

Covering Percival and the surrounding Great Sandy Desert country of northern Western Australia, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative overview of one of the Canning Stock Route’s most distinctive landscapes. Long dune systems meet the broad, ephemeral salt pans of the Percival Lakes, creating a remote environment where tracks, water points, and terrain relationships demand careful regional planning.

The sheet follows an important section of the Canning Stock Route from the Wardabunni Rockhole country across Tobin Lake and north towards Billowaggi Native Well. It also includes Guli Lake, Kumba Rockhole, Shoesmith Cliffs, Thompson Hills, numerous native wells, and the wider Percival Lakes system—making it invaluable for experienced expedition travellers, historians, researchers, land managers, and emergency coordinators.

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 outback navigation.

Explore adjoining sheets and confirm coverage using 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

• Essential Canning Stock Route coverage — the route, wells, rockholes, lake crossings, and surrounding terrain shown in one coherent view

• Exceptional salt-lake perspective — Tobin Lake and the wider Percival Lakes system placed within their full desert context

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, engineers, researchers, 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 dune fields, sandplains, cliffs, hills, and low desert relief

• Tobin Lake, Guli Lake, the Percival Lakes, claypans, drainage features, wells, and rockholes

• The Canning Stock Route, adjoining expedition tracks, and named localities

• Vegetation patterns and administrative boundaries

• 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: Percival SF51-08

• 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

• Emergency services and remote-area coordinators

• Environmental, conservation, and land-use managers

• Geologists, surveyors, researchers, and infrastructure planners

• Canning Stock Route historians and expedition planners

• Experienced four-wheel-drive travellers

🇦🇺 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 Percival region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.