Explore Ernest, Queensland, Australia, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Ernest, QLD map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets — plus a labelled MGA grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ernest, Queensland, Australia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Queensland or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Ernest and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Geoscience Australia National Base Map — seamless topographic mapping covering the mainland, Tasmania and the external territories. NATMAP 250K shows the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 map sheets, mosaicked nationwide — the printed sheets generations of Australians navigated the outback with. The search box finds any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Ernest.
Reading the map like a paper sheet. Click Grid to overlay the Map Grid of Australia (MGA), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an MGA grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what emergency services and search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load, which across much of inland Australia is most of the time.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Locality | Ernest |
| State | Queensland (QLD) |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving |
| Latitude | -15.31946 |
| Longitude | 127.46954 |
| Elevation | 210 m |
| Area Code | 07 |
| Distance to Brisbane | 2962 km west-north-west |
Ernest is a locality in Queensland, Australia. It sits at an elevation of around 210 m above sea level. It lies approximately 2962 km west-north-west of Brisbane. Ernest is located at 15.3195°S, 127.4695°E. It observes Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving.
Ernest sits deep within the rugged, ochre-stained embrace of the East Kimberley, where the landscape is defined by the relentless geology of the Cockburn Range and the sprawling, fractured plateaus that catch the low-slung sun in a haze of bruised purple and burning orange. It lies 483.2 km south-west of Darwin City, NT (from Darwin City, NT: bearing 229°T). The air here holds a weight of ancient heat, a dry, static charge that pulls the moisture from the scrubby spinifex and makes the distant escarpments shimmer like a mirage against the cobalt sky. Water is the architect of Ernest, carving deep, serpentine paths through the sandstone, leaving behind hidden gorges and seasonal watercourses that only wake to life when the monsoon clouds finally break their long, brittle silence. The silence of the plateau is profound, broken only by the sharp, metallic call of a wedgetail eagle circling the thermals or the dry rasp of wind moving through the stunted eucalypts.
Graziers and pastoralists have long sought to tame the harsh, unforgiving terrain of Ernest, turning the vast, rocky expanses into cattle country where the resilience of the beast matches the iron-rich soil. The economy remains tethered to the slow, seasonal pulse of the station life, a cycle dictated by the arrival of the wet and the subsequent muster, where the dust of the yard becomes a permanent fixture on the skin of those who work the land. While the region has seen the slow encroachment of modern mining logistics and the cautious interest of the adventurous traveller, Ernest retains a stubborn, frontier character, indifferent to the pace of the coast. Old tracks follow the contours of the limestone ridges, marking the routes of early explorers who underestimated the sheer, labyrinthine complexity of the terrain. The rhythm of daily life is measured not by the clock, but by the shifting angle of the shadows across the gorge walls, a quiet reminder that the land ultimately dictates the terms of existence.
Sources: curated tourist landmarks, CAPAD 2024 (Australian protected areas), OpenStreetMap.
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This page provides a street and satellite map of Ernest, Queensland. Live weather conditions with current observations and a 7-day forecast are powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while an editorially written description provides background on Ernest.
Detailed location data for Ernest includes the postcode, telephone area code (07). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Australian city, town or locality.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name; offers Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled Map Grid of Australia (MGA) so the map can be read like a printed topographic sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an MGA grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020) and enriched with GeoNames and Australian Bureau of Statistics data, matched by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Ernest is identified even where the name is shared across multiple localities.
| Page generated | October 2026 |
| Location data | Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020); enriched with GeoNames and ABS 2021 Census data, matched by coordinate proximity |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; © Geoscience Australia National Base Map and NATMAP 1:250 000 (CC BY 4.0); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Description | Editorial description generated with AI assistance from verified Geoscape, ABS and GeoNames location data. |