--- title: "Fullerton Cove – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Fullerton Cove, Australia: Fullerton Cove is a rural suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fullerton-cove" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fullerton-cove.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Stanley_Park_at_Fullerton_Cove_03.jpg/3840px-Stanley_Park_at_Fullerton_Cove_03.jpg" --- 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Stanley_Park_at_Fullerton_Cove_03.jpg/3840px-Stanley_Park_at_Fullerton_Cove_03.jpg) Fullerton Cove · Wikimedia Commons 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerton_Cove), CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sydney-mascot-to-fullerton-cove) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sydney+%28Mascot%29&to=Fullerton+Cove) - Gold Coast → Fullerton Cove 559 km · quickest by air, 3h 53m · A$200–300 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gold-coast-to-fullerton-cove) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gold+Coast&to=Fullerton+Cove) - Toowoomba → Fullerton Cove 587 km · quickest by air, 5h 32m · A$230–590 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/toowoomba-to-fullerton-cove) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Toowoomba&to=Fullerton+Cove) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Fullerton%20Cove) 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 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 around There is a single ferry service between and , costing $2.40 each way, also using Opal cards. From [Wikivoyage: Newcastle (New South Wales)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Newcastle_(New_South_Wales%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. 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Around it ## Next door to Fullerton Cove Fullerton Cove is 11 km from [Newcastle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/newcastle), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Williamtown](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/williamtown) locality in New South Wales, Australia 3.5 km - [Fern Bay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fern-bay) locality in New South Wales, Australia 2.7 km [The place page for Fullerton Cove](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/fullerton-cove) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Australia](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-AU) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fullerton-cove, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt