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Modbury Heights

Modbury Heights is a medium-sized suburb in the City of Tea Tree Gully, Adelaide.

The place

Modbury Heights is a medium-sized suburb in the City of Tea Tree Gully, Adelaide. The suburb is located in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges around 16 kilometres north east of the Central business district. Much of the suburb is residential but there is a small shopping area along Ladywood Road.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Modbury Heights

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
    The Heights Observatory

    The Heights Observatory is an Astronomical Observatory at The Heights School in Modbury Heights, Adelaide, South Australia. It is sometimes known as the Adelaide Observatory, but it is not to be confused with the observatory formerly established at the University of Adelaide.

    400 m · observatory in Modbury Heights, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Westfield Tea Tree Plaza

    Westfield Tea Tree Plaza, known simply as Tea Tree Plaza or TTP, is a large shopping centre located in Modbury serving as a shopping hub for Adelaide's growing north eastern suburbs, it is linked to the city by Adelaide's O-Bahn Busway, which terminates at the Tea Tree Plaza Interchange. Major tenants include Myer, Harris Scarfe, Target, Kmart, Big W, Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Hoyts.

    2.4 km · shopping mall in Modbury, South Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Modbury Heights

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 21 km
Stations
Tea Tree Plaza Interchange, 2.5 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Modbury Heights
    659 km · quickest by air, 5h 48m · A$260–390
  • Melbourne → Modbury Heights
    654 km · quickest by air, 5h 33m · A$250–370
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Modbury Heights
    1152 km · quickest by air, 5h 29m · A$260–390
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No local-transport research exists yet for Modbury 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 Modbury Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    167 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,199 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,750 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,711 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,628 km

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Next door to Modbury Heights

Modbury Heights is 15 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.