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Suburb of Caloundra, Queensland, Australia

Meridan Plains

Meridan Plains is a locality on the north-western edge of the Caloundra urban area in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

The place

Meridan Plains is a locality on the north-western edge of the Caloundra urban area in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. Traditionally a rural area, the locality is attracting residential development from the expansion of Caloundra. In the 2021 census, Meridan Plains had a population of 4,589 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Meridan Plains

One place 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
    Aussie World

    Aussie World is a privately owned, medium-sized, family theme park on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. It has over 30 rides and attractions.

    3.5 km · Theme park 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 Meridan Plains

Airports
Sunshine Coast (MCY), 19 km · Brisbane (BNE), 69 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 155 km
  • Brisbane → Meridan Plains
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · A$10–13
  • Toowoomba → Meridan Plains
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · A$25–33
  • Gold Coast → Meridan Plains
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · A$20–26
  • From anywhere
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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 Meridan Plains

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 Meridan Plains. 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

    173 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,802 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,912 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,392 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,932 km

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

Around it

Next door to Meridan Plains

Meridan Plains is 12 km from Sunshine Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Little Mountainsuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia2.5 km
  • Kawana Watersunofficial place name for an area of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia1.9 km
  • Kawanastate electoral district of Queensland, Australia3.4 km
  • Palmviewlocality in Queensland, Australia1.9 km