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Alfords Point

Alfords Point is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Alfords Point
Alfords Point · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Alfords Point is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Alfords Point is 28 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, within the local government area of the Sutherland Shire. Alfords Point shares the postcode of 2234 with neighbouring suburbs of Menai, Bangor and Illawong.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alfords Point

3 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
    Georges River National Park

    Georges River National Park is a protected Australian National Park, under the management of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The park falls in the regions of the Sutherland Shire Council and Canterbury-Bankstown Council.

    1 km · National Park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Oatley Park

    Oatley Park is a 112 acres reserve located on a promontory jutting into the Georges River in the southern Sydney suburb of Oatley. It is bounded by the Georges River, Lime Kiln Bay, and Jew Fish Bay.

    3.5 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Alfords Point Bridge

    Alfords Point Bridge is a twin 445-metre-long concrete and steel box girder road bridge that carries Alford Point Road as state route A6 across the lower Georges River between Padstow Heights in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown and Alfords Point in the Sutherland Shire in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The first bridge opened on 7 September 1973.

    1.2 km · bridge in 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 Alfords Point

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 15 km · Newcastle (NTL), 152 km
Stations
Padstow railway station, 3.8 km · Revesby railway station, 3.6 km
  • Williamtown → Alfords Point
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · A$23–30
  • Gold Coast → Alfords Point
    704 km · quickest by air, 5h 19m · A$240–350
  • Melbourne → Alfords Point
    692 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · A$240–360
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alfords Point

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 Alfords Point. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt enters the Sutherland Shire over the Captain Cook bridge and continues largely off-road or on quiet roads to Cronulla.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/St George and Sutherland Shire, 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

    997 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,085 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,271 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,872 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,261 km

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

Around it

Next door to Alfords Point

Alfords Point is 22 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Padstowsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.2 km
  • Menaisuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.4 km
  • Lugarnosuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
  • Pleasure Pointlocality in New South Wales, Australia3.4 km
  • Bangorsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.6 km
  • Illawongsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.9 km