Explore Roxby Downs Station, South Australia, Australia, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Roxby Downs Station, SA 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 Roxby Downs Station, South Australia, 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 South Australia or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Roxby Downs Station 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 Roxby Downs Station.
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 | Roxby Downs Station |
| State | South Australia (SA) |
| Local Government Area | Pastoral Unincorporated Area |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Central Time (ACST/ACDT) |
| Remoteness | Very Remote Australia |
| Latitude | -30.62797 |
| Longitude | 136.70877 |
| Area | 1756.7 km² |
| Postcode | 5719 |
| Area Code | 08 |
| Distance to Adelaide | 510 km north-northwest |
Roxby Downs Station is a locality in the Pastoral Unincorporated Area local government area of South Australia, Australia. The locality covers an area of 1756.7 km². It lies approximately 510 km north-northwest of Adelaide. Roxby Downs Station is located at 30.6280°S, 136.7088°E. It observes Australian Central Time (ACST/ACDT). Postcode: 5719. The Australian Bureau of Statistics classifies the area as Very Remote Australia.
Roxby Downs Station exists as a starkly beautiful expanse where the earth’s ochre tones bleed into an endless sky. It lies 480.9 km north-north-west of Gawler, SA (from Gawler, SA: bearing 336°T), and is situated 21.6 km west-south-west of Roxby Downs. The landscape here is a study in subtle gradients, a vast canvas painted with the muted colours of arid scrub, hardy saltbush, and the occasional resilient mulga tree standing sentinel against the sun’s unwavering gaze. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, a distillation of sun-baked earth and the faint perfume of native wildflowers that bloom with tenacious grace after sparse rains. Distant mesas, their edges softened by the haze of heat, rise like ancient guardians, hinting at the immense geological forces that shaped this land, and the quality of light here, particularly as dusk settles, is a wonder – a slow burn of gold and rose that washes over the land, deepening the shadows and lending a profound stillness to the world.
The story of Roxby Downs Station is inextricably linked to the earth’s hidden riches and the hardy spirit of those who sought them. For millennia, this country was trod by Indigenous custodians, their connection to this land deep and enduring. Later, the pastoral leases were established, bringing sheep and cattle to graze the sparse but vital vegetation, a testament to the resilience of both the land and the people who worked it. Today, the pulse of Roxby Downs Station is strongly tied to the mining industry, a modern chapter written in the extraction of valuable minerals that lie beneath the surface, shaping the local economy and drawing a diverse population to this remote corner of the continent. This blend of ancient heritage and contemporary endeavour gives Roxby Downs Station a unique character, a place where the silence of the outback holds echoes of the past and the hum of progress.
Sources: curated tourist landmarks, CAPAD 2024 (Australian protected areas), OpenStreetMap.
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This page provides a street and satellite map of Roxby Downs Station, South Australia. 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 Roxby Downs Station, in the Pastoral Unincorporated Area local government area.
Detailed location data for Roxby Downs Station includes the postcode (5719), telephone area code (08), and local government area (Pastoral Unincorporated Area), with an ABS remoteness classification of Very Remote Australia. 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 Roxby Downs Station 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. |