Birkdale

Worth seeing in and around Birkdale

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
   Peter Burge Oval

   Cricket ground

   2.1 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   US Army Radio Receiving Station, Capalaba

   Historic site in Queensland, Australia

   3.2 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Lota House

   Historic site in Queensland, Australia

   3.6 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Whepstead, Wellington Point

   Heritage listed building in Wellington Point, Queensland

   2.8 km · 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.

Getting to Birkdale

Airports

Brisbane (BNE), 15 km · Gold Coast (OOL), 81 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 100 km

Stations

Birkdale railway station, 1.2 km · Lota railway station, 3.1 km · Thorneside railway station, 2.4 km

• Gold Coast → Birkdale

  61 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · A$10–13
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• Maroochydore → Birkdale

  93 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · A$14–19
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• Toowoomba → Birkdale

  125 km · quickest by road, 3h · A$18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Birkdale

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

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