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Moonah

Moonah is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Glenorchy in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania.

Moonah
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The place

Moonah is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Glenorchy in the Hobart LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south-east of the town of Glenorchy. The 2016 census recorded a population of 5421 for the state suburb of Moonah.

It is a suburb in the city of Hobart, located approximately 5 km north of the central business district of Hobart, and lying directly north of the inner city suburb New Town.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Moonah

Airports
Hobart (HBA), 17 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Moonah
    590 km · quickest by air, 5h 36m · A$250–380
  • Melbourne → Moonah
    594 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · A$240–360
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Moonah
    1045 km · quickest by air, 5h 9m · A$240–360
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Moonah

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou can also take a car from mainland Australia via Devonport, with a ferry departing nightly from Melbourne.
  • Get aroundDerwent Ferries operates services between Brooke Street Pier in the city and Bellerive Pier in Bellerive.
  • Get aroundSightseeing cruises and water taxis operate services between Brooke Street Pier in the city and outlying piers along the River Derwent.
  • Get aroundThere is a poorly developed network of off-road cyclepaths, but Hobart drivers tend to be tolerant of cyclists, and most roads tend to be wide enough to accommodate them.
  • Get aroundOne old railway line from the city as far as Claremont has been converted to a first-class cycle and walking path (take care from motor vehicles at intersections).

From Wikivoyage: Hobart, 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

    51 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,169 km
  3. 03
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,665 km
  4. 04
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,032 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,781 km

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