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Lake Illawarra

Lake Illawarra is an open and trained intermediate wave dominated barrier estuary or large coastal lagoon.

Lake Illawarra
Lake Illawarra · Ibas70
The place

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 (62 mi) south of Sydney, Australia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Lake Illawarra

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 72 km · Newcastle (NTL), 213 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Lake Illawarra
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · A$11–15
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  • Williamtown → Lake Illawarra
    213 km · quickest by road, 4h 33m · A$32–42
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  • Melbourne → Lake Illawarra
    641 km · quickest by air, 8h 3m · A$360–520
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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 Lake Illawarra

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 Lake Illawarra. 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

    1,023 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,059 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,242 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,843 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,289 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lake Illawarra

  • Koonawarrasuburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia3.3 km
  • Windanglocality in New South Wales, Australia3.4 km
  • Kanahookasuburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
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