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Suburb of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia

Deception Bay

Deception Bay is a coastal suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.

Deception Bay
Deception Bay · Andrew Mercer
The place

Deception Bay is a coastal suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Deception Bay had a population of 19,573 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Deception Bay

2 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
    Freshwater National Park

    Freshwater is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 34 km north of Brisbane. The park is west of Redcliffe, near Deception Bay, within Caboolture Shire.

    2.4 km · national park in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Deception Bay Sea Baths

    Deception Bay Sea Baths are heritage-listed swimming pools at Captain Cook Parade, Deception Bay, City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. They were built around the 1880s and 1890s by Joseph Bancroft.

    1.7 km · historic site in Queensland, 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 Deception Bay

Airports
Brisbane (BNE), 25 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 66 km · Gold Coast (OOL), 120 km
  • Maroochydore → Deception Bay
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · A$9–11
  • Gold Coast → Deception Bay
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · A$14–19
  • Toowoomba → Deception Bay
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · A$19–25
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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 Deception Bay

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 Deception Bay. 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

    220 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,769 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,865 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,355 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,951 km

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

Around it

Next door to Deception Bay

Deception Bay is 32 km from Brisbane, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bancroftstate electoral district of Queensland, Australia1.3 km
  • Murrumbastate electoral district of Queensland, Australia2.8 km