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Christies Beach

Christies Beach is a seaside suburb in the southern Adelaide metropolitan area, within the City of Onkaparinga.

Christies Beach
Christies Beach · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Christies Beach is a seaside suburb in the southern Adelaide metropolitan area, within the City of Onkaparinga. The area is scenic and hence popular with photographers as Witton Bluff provides a natural vantage point over the entire suburb and beyond.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Christies Beach

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
    Onkaparinga River Recreation Park

    Onkaparinga River Recreation Park is a protected area occupying land in the estuary of the Onkaparinga River in South Australia. The recreation park which was established in 1985 is approximately 32 km from Adelaide city centre.

    3.5 km · park in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Centro Colonnades

    Colonnades Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the suburb of Noarlunga Centre, on a large allotment of land with access from Goldsmith Drive, Beach Road and Burgess Road.

    2 km · shopping mall in Noarlunga Center, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hickinbotham Oval

    Hickinbotham Oval is an Australian rules football stadium in Noarlunga Downs, an outer-southern suburb of Adelaide. It has been the home of South Australian National Football League club South Adelaide Football Club since 1995.

    1.9 km · Australian Football Stadium · 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.

Go there

Getting to Christies Beach

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 21 km
Stations
Christie Downs railway station, 1.8 km · Lonsdale railway station, 3.2 km · Noarlunga Centre Interchange, 1.5 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Christies Beach
    657 km · quickest by air, 5h 51m · A$260–390
  • Melbourne → Christies Beach
    652 km · quickest by air, 5h 36m · A$250–370
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Christies Beach
    1157 km · quickest by air, 7h 22m · A$260–390
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Christies Beach

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFor a day trip, you can rent a bicycle and take the Coast to Vines Rail Trail (see Do section) to get to McLaren Vale and Willunga.

From Wikivoyage: McLaren Vale, 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
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    131 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,182 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,786 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,708 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,651 km

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

Around it

Next door to Christies Beach

Christies Beach is 25 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Noarlunga Centresuburb of Adelaide, South Australia1.6 km
  • Port Noarlungasuburb of Adelaide, South Australia1.9 km
  • Noarlunga Downssuburb of Adelaide, South Australia2.7 km
  • Port Stanvac Refineryoil refinery in the Australian state of South Australia located in Lonsdale, a southern suburb of Adelaide2.8 km
  • Reynellstate electoral district of South Australia3.7 km
  • Lonsdalesuburb of Adelaide, South Australia3.1 km