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Kiama Heights

Kiama Heights is a semi-rural locality in the Illawarra, south of Kiama in New South Wales, Australia.

The place

Kiama Heights is a semi-rural locality in the Illawarra, south of Kiama in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the coast of the Tasman Sea on either side of the Princes Highway. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 878.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kiama Heights

5 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
    Saddleback Mountain

    Saddleback Mountain is a mountain near Kiama in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The mountain rises to about 600 metres above sea level on the Illawarra escarpment and has views of Noorinan Mountain, 662 metres above sea level, and Barren Grounds Plateau to the west and south to Coolangatta Mountain and Pigeon House Mountain to Ulladulla, and north over Lake Illawarra, the Illawarra escarpment and to the Cronulla Sandhills and Kurnell Oil Refinery on a clear day.

    3.7 km · mountain in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kiama Post Office

    Kiama Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 24 Terralong Street, Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by the Colonial Architect's Office under James Barnet.

    3.9 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Kiama NSW · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    CBC Bank Building, Kiama

    CBC Bank is a heritage-listed former bank building at 16–20 Manning Street, Kiama, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Mansfield Bros and built by White and Coghill in 1880.

    3.8 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kiama Reservoirs

    The Kiama Reservoirs are heritage-listed reservoirs at Irvine Street, Kiama, Municipality of Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. They are owned by Sydney Water.

    3.3 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Scots Presbyterian Church, Kiama

    The Scots Presbyterian Church is a heritage-listed Presbyterian church at Shoalhaven Street, Kiama, Municipality of Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Thomas Rowe and built from 1860 to 1863 by builders Moon & Simmons and carpenters Walker Bros.

    4 km · church building 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 Kiama Heights

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 90 km · Newcastle (NTL), 231 km
Stations
Kiama railway station, 3.8 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Kiama Heights
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · A$14–19
  • Williamtown → Kiama Heights
    230 km · quickest by road, 4h 52m · A$35–46
  • Melbourne → Kiama Heights
    630 km · quickest by air, 8h 50m · A$400–570
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kiama Heights

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe route from Dunmore station down to Kiama is all off-road or quiet road.
  • Go nextWollongong and Sydney are both a day trip from Kiama.

From Wikivoyage: Kiama, 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

    1,004 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,078 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,239 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,829 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,303 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kiama Heights

  • Kiamatown in New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
  • Werri BeachAustralian town3.1 km
  • Rose Valleylocality in the Illawarra region of New South Wales3.5 km