Overview

The Garmin BlueChart g3 HD HXPC024R is an electronic coastal chart for Australia and New Zealand used on compatible Garmin chartplotters. It covers the full region with detailed coastal information for planning and navigation, including major cruising and fishing areas like the Great Barrier Reef, Brisbane and Sydney, the southern coast around Melbourne, Adelaide and Tasmania, plus western and northern waters around Perth, Darwin and the Gulf of Carpentaria.

This chart is a good match when your boat already runs a Garmin plotter and you want dedicated AU/NZ cartography on a removable card or as a computer download you can load to a card. It is meant for coastal navigation, harbor approaches, and day-to-day route planning where local depth detail and shoreline features matter.

Key features

• Coverage for Australia and New Zealand, including many of the main ports and coastal cruising areas.
• Available as a physical microSD/SD card format or as a download format, depending on how you prefer to load charts.
• Works with compatible Garmin chartplotters that support BlueChart g3 cartography.
• Download format supports loading the chart to a microSD/SD card using Garmin Express.
• When loading by download, plan on dedicating a single card to this chart rather than combining multiple charts on one card.

Variants

This product is offered in multiple configurations so you can match the delivery format to the way you manage charts on your boat.

The chart region stays the same across the range, while the format changes between a card-based option and a computer download you load onto a microSD/SD card.

• 010-C1020-20: SD Card format. This is the physical chart on a card for chartplotters that read removable chart media.
• 010-D0599-00: Download format. This is delivered digitally and is loaded onto a compatible microSD/SD card using Garmin Express before it is used in the chartplotter.

Compatibility and fit

Confirm that your Garmin chartplotter supports BlueChart g3 charts and check whether it uses a full-size SD slot or a microSD slot before ordering. If your plotter has multiple card slots, use the one intended for chart cartography.

Installation and setup

For the SD card format, power the chartplotter off, insert the chart card, then power back on and select the chart layer from your mapping options.

For the download format, install the chart to a microSD/SD card from a computer, then move that card to the chartplotter. Use a quality Class 10 card and format it the way your plotter expects so the install and updates go smoothly.

Use on board

This charting is most useful for coastal cruising, offshore runs that stay within charted coastal waters, and fishing trips where you want clear local detail around reefs, bays, and port approaches in Australia and New Zealand.