Explore Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Fraser Island, 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 Fraser Island, 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 Fraser Island 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 Fraser Island.
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 | Fraser Island |
| State | Queensland (QLD) |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving |
| Latitude | -25.23755 |
| Longitude | 153.13293 |
| Elevation | 97 m |
| Area Code | 07 |
| Distance to Brisbane | 248 km north |
Fraser Island is a locality in Queensland, Australia. It sits at an elevation of around 97 m above sea level. It lies approximately 248 km north of Brisbane. Fraser Island is located at 25.2375°S, 153.1329°E. It observes Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) - no daylight saving.
Fraser Island rises from the Pacific as a formidable rampart of silica, its vast, shifting dunes anchoring the world’s largest sand island against the relentless churn of the tide. It lies 54.5 km north-east of Maryborough, QLD (from Maryborough, QLD: bearing 54°T), and is situated 24.2 km east-north-east of Urangan. The landscape here defies the conventional geometry of earth, where freshwater lakes of startling, tea-stained clarity sit suspended high above sea level in the basins of ancient, elevated hollows. On the eastern fringe, the ocean delivers a constant, rhythmic percussion against the shoreline, casting a fine, saline mist that clings to the skin and carries the sharp tang of salt and brine. Inland, the terrain transitions abruptly from the bleached white of the beach into the deep, emerald gloom of rainforests that draw life directly from the sand, their roots clutching at nutrients in a precarious, nutrient-poor substrate that somehow yields towering kauri and satinay trees.
History lingers in the quiet traces of a past defined by timber harvesting and the extraction of mineral sands, though these extractive industries have long since yielded to the island’s status as a protected sanctuary. Fraser Island now sustains itself through the ebb and flow of visitors who traverse its interior tracks in high-clearance vehicles, navigating a network of sandy paths that demand a slow, deliberate pace. Tradition here is measured by the tides and the seasonal migration of whales that pass through the neighbouring channels, their presence a seasonal punctuation mark in the island’s quietude. The air possesses a crystalline quality at dusk, turning the sky into a bruised palette of violet and charcoal, while the dingoes—the island’s most enduring and watchful inhabitants—emerge from the scrub to patrol the shoreline under the pale, indifferent light of the rising moon.
Sources: curated tourist landmarks, CAPAD 2024 (Australian protected areas), OpenStreetMap.
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This page provides a street and satellite map of Fraser Island, 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 Fraser Island.
Detailed location data for Fraser Island 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 Fraser Island 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. |