Kurnell
Kurnell is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Kurnell is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 21.4 kilometres (13.3 mi) south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire along the east coast. Kurnell is adjacent to the suburbs of Cronulla, Woolooware and Greenhills Beach. La Perouse is located opposite, on the northern headland of Botany Bay. The Cronulla sand dunes are on the south eastern headland of Botany Bay. The eastern side of the peninsula is part of Botany Bay National Park, and Towra Point Nature Reserve is located on the western side of the suburb. Residents are affectionately known as ‘Kurnellians’.
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Worth seeing in and around Kurnell
4 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.
- 01Kamay Botany Bay National Park
The Kamay Botany Bay National Park is a heritage-listed protected national park in the eastern part of Botany Bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The 456-hectare national park is situated approximately 16 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, on the northern and southern headlands of Botany Bay.
1.9 km · National Park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Cape Baily Light
Cape Baily Light is an active lighthouse located at Cape Baily, a headland at the south side of the entrance to Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia. The light serves to help north-bound shipping hug the coast to avoid the strong southerly currents further out to sea.
3 km · lighthouse in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 03La Perouse Mission Church
The La Perouse Mission Church is a heritage-listed former church building and now vacant building and unused church located at 46 Adina Avenue, La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1894 to 1930.
4 km · church in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Boat Harbour
Boat Harbour is a small beach located on the southern side of the Botany Bay National Park in Kurnell, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
3 km · beach in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
See Cronulla and Royal National Park for sights in those areas of the Sutherland Shire. Other sights in the Sutherland Shire include:
- 01Oatley Park
Oatley (2km walk west of Oatley station).
- 02E.G
Waterhouse National Camellia Garden, President Ave, Caringbah (2 minutes drive/20 minutes walk from Caringbah along President Avenue).
- 03Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve
Garnet Ave, Kareela (Entrance is hard to find, take Bates Drive from Princes Hwy (signposted to Kareela), left on Alpita to end, Left on Garnet to end, left on Manooka to end).
- 04Como Pleasure Grounds
Cremona Rd, Como (Walk down the hill from Como Station, turn left on Cremona Road, and follow until the end).
- 05Captain Cook's Landing Place
Captain Cook Drive, Kurnell (over Captain Cook Bridge, and along Captain Cook Drive, or train to Cronulla station and a 987 bus to Kurnell).
- 06Sydney Tramway Museum
Rawson Pde, Loftus (Adjacent to Loftus Railway Station, no entry from Metroad 1 heading south).
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Things to do
Do the things there are to do in Cronulla and the Royal National Park and then: Dive, Shiprock Point Marine Reserve. Shiprock Point in Dolans Bay has a marine reserve. Some tropical fish can even be seen here in the summer months, when the water is warm in February mainly. You can see many fish varieties snorkelling along the rocks all the way around from Lilli Pilli Point to Shiprock.
- 01Como Marina
- 02The Boatshed at Woronora
131 Prince Edward Park Rd, Woronora (Just over the creek bridge, on the right).
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Where to eat
There are a selection of places to eat at Cronulla. As with much of Sydney every shopping strip has at least one decent Australian-Thai restaurant, which may not please the gourmet with service nice food at around $15 a main for dinner, with a lunch special usually $7-10. There is no shortage of Indian and Chinese options too.
- 01McDonald's Engadine
Mianga Ave, Engadine (along A1 Princes Hwy northbound),.
- 02Mr India
780 Old Princes Hwy, Sutherland (50 m east of Sutherland Station),.
From Wikivoyage: Kurnell, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Kurnell
- Airports
- Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 8 km · Newcastle (NTL), 147 km
- Williamtown → Kurnell146 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · A$24–32
- Gold Coast → Kurnell701 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · A$220–330
- Melbourne → Kurnell703 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · A$220–330
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kurnell
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 Kurnell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere is no ferry to La Perouse, but there is a plan to reinstate a ferry service (F10) to Kurnell which was ceased in 1974 due to a storm.
From Wikivoyage: La Perouse, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-02.
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Next door to Kurnell
Kurnell is 16 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.