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Holsworthy

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Holsworthy

One place 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
    Holsworthy Internment Camp

    Holsworthy Internment Camp was the largest camp for prisoners of war in Australia during World War I. It was located at Holsworthy, near Liverpool on the outskirts of Sydney. There are varying estimates of the number of internees between 4,000 and 7,000.

    500 m · historic commonwealth heritage site in Holsworthy NSW · 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 Holsworthy

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 20 km · Newcastle (NTL), 155 km
Stations
Holsworthy Barracks, 1.9 km · East Hills railway station, 3 km · Holsworthy railway station, 2.4 km
  • Williamtown → Holsworthy
    153 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · A$23–31
  • Melbourne → Holsworthy
    688 km · quickest by air, 5h 35m · A$250–370
  • Gold Coast → Holsworthy
    705 km · quickest by air, 5h 33m · A$250–370
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Holsworthy

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt enters the Sutherland Shire over the Captain Cook bridge and continues largely off-road or on quiet roads to Cronulla.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/St George and Sutherland Shire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

Around it

Next door to Holsworthy

Holsworthy is 26 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.