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Hunters Hill

Hunters Hill is a suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Hunters Hill
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The place

Hunters Hill is a suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Hunters Hill is located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Municipality of Hunter's Hill.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hunters Hill

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
    Gladesville Bridge

    Gladesville Bridge is a heritage-listed concrete arch road bridge that carries Victoria Road over the Parramatta River, linking the Sydney suburbs of Drummoyne and Huntleys Point, in the local government areas of Canada Bay and Hunter's Hill respectively, in New South Wales, Australia. Despite its name, the bridge is not in Gladesville.

    1 km · bridge in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Snapper Island

    Snapper Island is a 1.65-hectare island in Sydney Harbour, Australia. It lies in the main channel of the western section of the harbour, upstream of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, adjacent to the Sydney suburb of Drummoyne.

    3 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Drummoyne NSW · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Drummoyne Oval

    Drummoyne Oval is a multi-use sports ground in the Sydney inner-west suburb of Drummoyne, New South Wales. The ground has been used for international women's cricket matches, domestic men's cricket matches and first grade rugby league as well as local Australian rules football and Rugby Union games.

    2 km · Sports ground of Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sydney College of the Arts

    The Sydney College of the Arts is a contemporary art school that was a faculty of the University of Sydney from 1990 until 2017, when it became a school of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Until the end of 2019, the campus was located in Rozelle, Sydney and housed within Callan Park in the Kirkbride complex, a cluster of sandstone buildings designed by James Barnet, the government architect, in the late 19th century.

    3.9 km · contemporary art college in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Birchgrove Park

    Birchgrove Park is an urban park and sports ground located in Birchgrove, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on the waterfront of Sydney Harbour. It is also the location of Birchgrove Oval, the headquarters of the Sydney Cricket Club from 1897 to 1947 and a historic rugby league football ground which served as the original home of the Balmain Tigers club.

    3.9 km · park and cricket field in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Boronia Park

    The Boronia Park, or the Boronia Park Reserve, is a waterfront parkland and nature reserve wholly within the suburb of Hunters Hill, in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The park dates back to pre-colonial New South Wales, with original and widely diverse flora and fauna:...Boronia Park is the best place to gain an idea of Hunter's Hill's pre-European landscape, as it has the largest intact stretch of bushland.

    1 km · protected area in Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Iron Cove Bridge

    The Iron Cove Bridge is a heritage-listed road bridge that carries Victoria Road across Iron Cove, between the Sydney suburbs of Drummoyne and Rozelle. Iron Cove is an arm of Sydney Harbour.

    3.3 km · bridge in Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Joseph's College

    St Joseph's College is an independent Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys, conducted in the Marist Brothers tradition, in Hunters Hill, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded by the Marist Brothers in 1881, Joeys has approximately 1,100 students from Year 7 to Year 12, including over 550 boarders, making it the largest all boys' boarding school in Australia, and one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

    500 m · boys secondary school in Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Tarban Creek Bridge

    The Tarban Creek Bridge is a prestressed concrete arch bridge that carries the Burns Bay Road across the Tarban Creek, located west of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia. The bridge is situated between the Gladesville Bridge and the Fig Tree Bridge, being immediately to the north of Gladesville Bridge.

    400 m · bridge in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Vienna, Hunters Hill

    Vienna is a heritage-listed former house and now museum at 38–40 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1871 and is known as Curan Curan, Carrum Carrum, Subiaco and Vienna Cottage.

    1 km · historic site in New South Wales, 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.

Go there

Getting to Hunters Hill

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 13 km · Newcastle (NTL), 132 km
Stations
Spectacle Island, 2.5 km
  • Williamtown → Hunters Hill
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · A$20–27
  • Gold Coast → Hunters Hill
    684 km · quickest by air, 5h 14m · A$230–350
  • Toowoomba → Hunters Hill
    702 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · A$230–340
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hunters Hill

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTo some islands you can catch a scheduled ferry service, either on either Sydney Ferries or Captain Cook/Matilda Ferries.
  • Get inYou can also catch a water taxi, or impose on a friend with a boat to drop you off.
  • Get inIf you catch a Sydney Ferry, it is part of the ferry network.
  • Get inMatilda/Captain Cook ferries, and they don't accept Opal, and only sell return tickets to Circular Quay or Darling Harbour ($17/$15) The do offer bundles with other ferry trips, such as their all day explorer ticket ($42/$26).
  • Get inWater taxi fares start around $50 and go upwards to around $200 which usually includes the first few passengers.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Harbour Islands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    978 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,105 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,285 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,875 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,258 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hunters Hill

Hunters Hill is 7 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • BalmainSuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.8 km
  • Drummoynesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.6 km
  • Gladesvillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.7 km
  • Longuevillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km
  • Greenwichsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.7 km
  • Lane Covesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3 km