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Cardiff South

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cardiff South

7 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
    Cardiff

    Cardiff is a suburb in the Lake Macquarie LGA of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 17 kilometres west-southwest of Newcastle.

    1.6 km · suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Charlestown

    Charlestown is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, and the largest suburb in Lake Macquarie and in the Greater Newcastle area. It is approximately 10 kilometres west-south-west of the central business district of Newcastle.

    2.2 km · suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Garden Suburb

    Garden Suburb is a small semi-rural suburb in the City of Lake Macquarie local government area in the Greater Newcastle area in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 2 kilometres east of Cardiff.

    1.6 km · suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kahibah Public School

    Kahibah Public School is a government-funded co-educational primary day school, located in Kahibah, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1938 in the Kahibah Memorial Hall, it moved to its current location in 1954.

    3.6 km · school in Lake Macquarie LGA, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hunter Ice Skating Stadium

    The Hunter Ice Skating Stadium is an ice sports and public skate centre, opened in 2000 and located in Warners Bay, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. The stadium serves as the home ice rink of the Newcastle Northstars who compete in the Australian Ice Hockey League and East Coast Super League.

    1.1 km · ice arena in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Feighan Park

    Warners Bay is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, and is located 15 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It is often regarded as a part of the Greater Newcastle district.

    2.7 km · park in Warners Bay, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Mount Hutton

    Mount Hutton is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, located 14 kilometres from Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It is part of the City of Lake Macquarie North Ward.

    3.1 km · suburb of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cardiff South

Airports
Newcastle (NTL), 24 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 119 km
Stations
Kotara railway station, 3.4 km · Cardiff railway station, 1.5 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Cardiff South
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · A$19–26
  • Gold Coast → Cardiff South
    576 km · quickest by air, 5h 33m · A$240–360
  • Toowoomba → Cardiff South
    600 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · A$240–360
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cardiff South

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is a single ferry service between and , costing $2.40 each way, also using Opal cards.

From Wikivoyage: Newcastle (New South Wales), 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

    873 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,212 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,358 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,913 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,230 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cardiff South

Cardiff South is 11 km from Newcastle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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