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Suburb of Port Stephens Council, New South Wales, Australia

Fullerton Cove

Fullerton Cove is a rural suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, located just north of Fern Bay and adjacent to Fullerton Cove, from which the suburb gets its name.

Fullerton Cove
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The place

Fullerton Cove is a rural suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, located just north of Fern Bay and adjacent to Fullerton Cove, from which the suburb gets its name. The Worimi people are the traditional owners of the Port Stephens area. At the 2021 Australian census the population of Fullerton Cove was 745.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Fullerton Cove

Airports
Newcastle (NTL), 5 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 137 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Fullerton Cove
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · A$22–29
  • Gold Coast → Fullerton Cove
    559 km · quickest by air, 3h 53m · A$200–300
  • Toowoomba → Fullerton Cove
    587 km · quickest by air, 5h 32m · A$230–590
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No local-transport research exists yet for Fullerton Cove

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 Fullerton Cove. 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.

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Around it

Next door to Fullerton Cove

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

  • Williamtownlocality in New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • Fern Baylocality in New South Wales, Australia2.7 km