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Suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Kanahooka

Kanahooka is a southern suburb in Wollongong City Council.

Kanahooka
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The place

Kanahooka is a southern suburb in Wollongong City Council. It has a few shops and a playground.

Situated on Lake Illawarra is a Park with a playground. It has a public school and a high school.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kanahooka

2 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
    Lake Illawarra

    Lake Illawarra is an open and trained intermediate wave dominated barrier estuary or large coastal lagoon. It is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, situated about 100 kilometres south of Sydney, Australia.

    3.6 km · lake in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dapto Mall

    Dapto Mall is a shopping centre in the suburb of Dapto, a suburb of Wollongong in the Illawarra region, New South Wales, Australia.

    1.2 km · shopping centre in 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 Kanahooka

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 69 km · Newcastle (NTL), 211 km
Stations
Dapto railway station, 1.5 km · Kembla Grange railway station, 2.6 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Kanahooka
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · A$10–14
  • Williamtown → Kanahooka
    210 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · A$31–41
  • Melbourne → Kanahooka
    642 km · quickest by air, 7h 54m · A$360–510
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Kanahooka

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA good cycle route could take 60 km mostly off-road from Bulli to Kiama, hugging the coast and headlands the whole way, and passing close to all Wollongong has to offer.
  • Go nextIf you are staying in Wollongong, Sydney is a fairly comfortable day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Wollongong, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,026 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,056 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,240 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,847 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,285 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kanahooka

  • Daptosuburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia1.8 km
  • Koonawarrasuburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia1.5 km
  • Brownsvillelocality in New South Wales, Australia1 km
  • Kembla Grangesuburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia3.1 km