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Glenunga

Glenunga is an inner southeastern suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.

Glenunga
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The place

Glenunga is an inner southeastern suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. It is located in the City of Burnside, five kilometres southeast of the Adelaide city centre. The name Glenunga is a composite of Aboriginal and Scottish words, "unga" meaning near and "glen" from the nearby Glen Osmond Bounded on the north by Windsor Road, the east by Portrush Road, the south-west by Glen Osmond Road and the west by Conyngham Street, the leafy suburb forms a rough triangular layout.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Glenunga

10 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
    Victoria Square

    Victoria Square, also known as Tarntanyangga, is the central square of five public squares in the Adelaide city centre, South Australia. It is one of six squares designed by the founder of Adelaide, Colonel William Light, who was Surveyor-General at the time, in his 1837 plan of the City of Adelaide which spanned the River Torrens Valley, comprising the city centre and North Adelaide.

    3.9 km · square in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Norwood Oval

    Norwood Oval is a suburban oval in the western end of Norwood, an inner eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The Oval has a capacity of 10,000 people, with grandstand seating for up to 3,900.

    3.6 km · Multipurpose stadium near Adelaide, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Brown Hill, Mitcham

    Brown Hill is a hill in the Australian state of South Australia located on the western edge of the Mount Lofty Ranges, 7 kilometres southeast of the centre of Adelaide, in the suburb of Brown Hill Creek. Brown Hill rises to 312 metres above sea level.

    3.8 km · mountain in South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Adelaide Himeji Garden

    Adelaide Himeji Garden is a traditionally-styled Japanese garden, a gift from Adelaide's sister city, Himeji in 1982. It is located in Park 18, one of the southern parts of the Adelaide Park Lands in Adelaide, South Australia.

    3.1 km · traditional Japanese garden in Adelaide, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Unley Oval

    Unley Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket venue in the Adelaide suburb of Unley. It is the home of the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League, while the Sturt Cricket Club also hosts lower-grade matches at the venue.

    2.5 km · Multi-purpose stadium in Adelaide, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kensington Oval, Adelaide

    The Kensington Oval is located on 344 The Parade, Kensington, South Australia. Now used primarily for cricket in South Australia, the venue was once Adelaide's premier athletics facility and known as Olympic Sports Field.

    3.5 km · Cricket ground in the Kensington Park district of Adelaide, South Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Rymill Park

    Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka, and numbered as Park 14, is a recreation park located in the East Park Lands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. There is an artificial lake with rowboats for hire, a café, children's playground and rose garden, and the Adelaide Bowling Club is on the Dequetteville Terrace side.

    3.8 km · recreational park on the eastern fringe of Adelaide city centre, South Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Victoria Park

    Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi, also known as Park 16, is a park located in the Southeastern Park Lands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is bordered by Fullarton Road, Greenhill Road, East Terrace and Wakefield Road.

    2.6 km · park in Adelaide, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Beaumont House

    Beaumont House, occasionally known as Claremont, is an eclectic Romanesque-Classical brick residence located at 631 Glynburn Road in Beaumont, South Australia. Beaumont House was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral.

    2 km · house in South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hazelwood Park, Adelaide

    Hazelwood Park is a park in the Australian state of South Australia located in the suburb of Hazelwood Park within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area. First creek continues its journey from the hills through the park, the water flowing from Waterfall Gully and into Tusmore.

    2.3 km · park in South Australia, 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 Glenunga

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 10 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Glenunga
    654 km · quickest by air, 5h 17m · A$230–350
  • Melbourne → Glenunga
    649 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · A$220–330
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Glenunga
    1155 km · quickest by air, 4h 58m · A$230–350
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Glenunga

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 Glenunga. 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
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    154 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,189 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,762 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,706 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,640 km

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Around it

Next door to Glenunga

Glenunga is 4 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.