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Kiels Mountain

Kiels Mountain is a rural locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

The place

Kiels Mountain is a rural locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Kiels Mountain had a population of 714 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kiels Mountain

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
    Big Pineapple

    The Big Pineapple is a heritage-listed tourist attraction and big thing at Nambour Connection Road, Woombye, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Peddle Thorp and Harvey, Paul Luff, and Gary Smallcombe and Associates.

    1.8 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wildlife HQ Zoo

    Wildlife HQ Zoo, is located at the Big Pineapple, Woombye, Queensland on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland and opened in November 2013. In March 2014 many animals were relocated from the now closed Alma Park Zoo.

    1.9 km · zoo 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.

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Getting to Kiels Mountain

Airports
Sunshine Coast (MCY), 11 km · Brisbane (BNE), 82 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 156 km
Stations
Woombye railway station, 3.7 km
  • Brisbane → Kiels Mountain
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · A$12–16
  • Toowoomba → Kiels Mountain
    145 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · A$27–36
  • Gold Coast → Kiels Mountain
    155 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · A$22–29
  • 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 Kiels Mountain

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
  • Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.

From Wikivoyage: Sunshine Coast, 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
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    162 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,803 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,921 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,406 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,919 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kiels Mountain

Kiels Mountain is 8 km from Sunshine Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Woombyetown in Queensland, Australia3.4 km
  • Forest Glenlocality in Queensland, Australia3.4 km
  • Diddillibahlocality in Queensland, Australia3.4 km
  • Kunda Parksuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia3.4 km