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Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Illawong

Illawong is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Illawong
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The place

Illawong is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Illawong is located 27 kilometres south of the Sydney Central Business District, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire in the area commonly called Menai. The postcode is 2234, which is also assigned to the contiguous suburbs of Menai, Bangor, Barden Ridge and Alfords Point.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Illawong

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 14 km · Newcastle (NTL), 153 km
  • Williamtown → Illawong
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · A$23–30
  • Gold Coast → Illawong
    705 km · quickest by air, 5h 19m · A$240–350
  • Melbourne → Illawong
    692 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · A$240–360
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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 Illawong

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 Illawong. 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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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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Next door to Illawong

Illawong is 22 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.