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Banora Point

Banora Point is a suburb located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia in Tweed Shire.

Banora Point
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The place

Banora Point is a suburb located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia in Tweed Shire. Together with Tweed Heads South and Terranora it had a combined population of 27,368 in 2001, including 21,457 (78.4%) Australian-born persons and 525 (1.9%) indigenous persons. In the 2016 census, Banora Point had a population of 16,167.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Banora 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
    Duranbah Beach

    Duranbah Beach, officially known as Flagstaff Beach, but also known as Dbah is the northernmost beach in New South Wales. Located in the Tweed Shire, Duranbah Beach is situated between the mouth of the Tweed River and the rocky headland Point Danger which also marks the Queensland-New South Wales border.

    5.8 km · surfing beach in Tweed Shire, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Point Danger Light

    Point Danger Light, also known as the Captain Cook Memorial Light, is an active lighthouse located on Point Danger, a headland between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, marking the border between Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It lays claim to be the first lighthouse in the world to experiment with laser as a light source.

    6 km · lighthouse in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fingal Head Light

    Fingal Head Light is an active lighthouse located at Fingal Head, New South Wales, Australia, a headland about 5 kilometres south of Point Danger, which marks the Queensland border.

    4.1 km · lighthouse in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Banora Point

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 6 km · Brisbane (BNE), 101 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 186 km
  • Brisbane → Banora Point
    97 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · A$13–17
  • Maroochydore → Banora Point
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · A$25–33
  • Toowoomba → Banora Point
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · A$25–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Banora 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 Banora Point. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    337 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,746 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,768 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,230 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,057 km

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Around it

Next door to Banora Point

Banora Point is 26 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.