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Alexandra Headland

Alexandra Headland is a coastal suburb of Maroochydore in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

Alexandra Headland
Alexandra Headland · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Alexandra Headland is a coastal suburb of Maroochydore in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Alexandra Headland had a population of 4,235 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alexandra Headland

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sea Life Sunshine Coast

    Sea Life Sunshine Coast is a marine mammal park, oceanarium and wildlife sanctuary at Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Sea Life Sunshine Coast is an institutional member of the Zoo and Aquarium Association.

    2.2 km · marine mammal park in Sunshine Coast, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cotton Tree Caravan Park

    Cotton Tree Caravan Park is a heritage-listed caravan park at Cotton Tree Parade, Cotton Tree, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 April 2009.

    2.3 km · heritage-listed caravan park in Cotton Tree, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Canambie Homestead

    Canambie Homestead is a heritage-listed plantation at 12 Dixon Road, Buderim, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1883.

    3.3 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Point Cartwright Light

    Point Cartwright Light is an active lighthouse located on Point Cartwright, a point near the mouth of the Mooloolah River, in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia. It marks the entrance to the North West Channel, a deep water channel into Moreton Bay and the Port of Brisbane, and provides guidance into the Mooloolaba Harbour.

    3.8 km · lighthouse in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Alexandra Headland

Airports
Sunshine Coast (MCY), 9 km · Brisbane (BNE), 79 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 163 km
  • Brisbane → Alexandra Headland
    89 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · A$12–16
  • Toowoomba → Alexandra Headland
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · A$27–35
  • Gold Coast → Alexandra Headland
    151 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · A$21–29
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alexandra Headland

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alexandra Headland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
  • Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.

From Wikivoyage: Sunshine Coast, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    163 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,810 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,922 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,400 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,928 km

If you know how people move in Alexandra Headland – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Alexandra Headland

Alexandra Headland is 3 km from Sunshine Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Mooloolabasuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia1.9 km
  • Maroochydoretown in Queensland, Australia2.6 km
  • Cotton Treelocality in Queensland, Australia2.4 km
  • Buddinasuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia3.8 km
  • Minyamasuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia3.4 km