Sandstone SG50-16 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Historic goldfields, banded-iron ranges, and remote East Murchison roads—mapped with authority across inland Western Australia

Covering Sandstone, the Black Range goldfield, Lake Mason, Barrambie, and the surrounding East Murchison interior, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of country shaped by more than a century of mining, pastoral enterprise, and long-distance travel. From the heritage landscape around Sandstone and London Bridge to the Gum Creek greenstone belt, Montague Range, salt-lake systems, and isolated station country, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet brings together town and mining localities, pastoral leases, homesteads, regional roads, mine access routes, station and exploration tracks, drainage systems, terrain, vegetation patterns, and named natural features in one coherent view—valuable for geological fieldwork, pastoral operations, conservation programs, emergency coordination, heritage research, and 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

• True regional perspective — historic goldfields, ranges, salt lakes, pastoral leases, and long remote routes shown in one coherent view

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, exploration teams, pastoral operators, 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 greenstone belts, banded-iron ridges, rocky breakaways, plains, and mulga country

• Sandstone, the Black Range goldfield, Lake Mason, Barrambie, Montague Range, and surrounding localities

• Historic mines, modern exploration areas, pastoral homesteads, and resource infrastructure

• Lake Mason and associated salt lakes, drainage lines, pools, wells, bores, and other inland water features

• Regional roads, station tracks, mine access routes, vegetation patterns, boundaries, and clear grid overlays for accurate positioning

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Sandstone SG50-16

• 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

• Geologists, prospectors, surveyors, and mineral-exploration teams

• Mining operators, contractors, and infrastructure planners

• Pastoral operators, station managers, and regional service providers

• Conservation managers, ecologists, and environmental field teams

• Emergency services and remote-area coordinators

• Four-wheel-drive travellers, heritage visitors, and expedition planners

• Researchers, educators, historians, and students

🇦🇺 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, explore the historic goldfields, and navigate the Sandstone region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.