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Mount Ousley

Mount Ousley is a residential suburb situated on the foothills of Mount Keira about four kilometres northwest from the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Mount Ousley
Mount Ousley · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mount Ousley is a residential suburb situated on the foothills of Mount Keira about four kilometres northwest from the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It is also the name of the road which crosses the nearby Illawarra Escarpment and is adjacent to the University of Wollongong. Mount Ousley has a public school, Mount Ousley Public School in Fairy Meadow.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mount Ousley

9 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
    University of Wollongong

    The University of Wollongong is an Australian public research university located in the suburb of Keiraville, within the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2023, the university had an enrolment of more than 33,000 students, an alumni base of more than 176,000 [LC1] and over 2,400 staff members including 16 distinguished professors.

    1.4 km · public research university in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brokers Nose

    Brokers Point or Brokers Nose or Corrimal Peak or Brokers Peak, is a point on the Illawarra Range, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

    3.8 km · mountain in Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Nebo

    Mount Nebo, a tall hill that is part of the Illawarra Range, is located in the foothills of the Illawarra escarpment on the edge of the suburban fringe of the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. At 251 metres above sea level, the hill is reached by the steep O'Brien's Road from the suburb of Figtree.

    2.9 km · mountain in Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Illawarra escarpment

    The Illawarra escarpment, or officially the Illawarra Range, is the fold-created cliffs and plateau-eroded outcrop mountain range west of the Illawarra coastal plain south of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The range encloses the Illawarra region which stretches from Stanwell Park in the north to Kiama, Gerringong and the Shoalhaven River in the south.

    3.7 km · mountain range in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    North Dalton Park

    North Dalton Park is located on Pioneer Rd, Towradgi, in the northern suburbs of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. The ground has a grandstand on the western side, where 430 plastic bucket seats were installed over the concrete steps in early 2017.

    3.6 km · Sports ground in Wollongong, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wollongong Botanic Garden

    The Wollongong Botanic Garden is located in the Wollongong suburb of Keiraville at the foot of Mount Keira in New South Wales, Australia. It is the local botanical gardens of the Illawarra and was established in 1964.

    1.5 km · boranic garden in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Wollongong Central

    Wollongong Central is a large shopping centre in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

    3.7 km · shopping centre in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. Michael's Cathedral & Rectory

    St Michael's Cathedral is a heritage-listed Anglican cathedral at Church Street, Wollongong, City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It is the principal Anglican church in the city of Wollongong and the mother-church of the Bishop of Wollongong.

    3.7 km · cathedral in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Gleniffer Brae

    Gleniffer Brae is a heritage-listed former residence, school and now conservatorium of music and function centre on Murphys Avenue in the Wollongong suburb of Keiraville, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Geoffrey D. Loveridge and built from 1937 to 1939 by L. Benbow in conjunction with W. W. Todd & Son, W. Wilson & Co.

    1.2 km · historic site in New South Wales, 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.

Go there

Getting to Mount Ousley

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 58 km · Newcastle (NTL), 200 km
Stations
North Wollongong railway station, 2.6 km · Wollongong railway station, 3.6 km · Fairy Meadow railway station, 2.8 km · Towradgi railway station, 3.6 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Mount Ousley
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · A$9–12
  • Williamtown → Mount Ousley
    197 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · A$29–39
  • Melbourne → Mount Ousley
    653 km · quickest by air, 7h 20m · A$330–470
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mount Ousley

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 Mount Ousley. 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

    1,037 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,045 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,247 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,850 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,282 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mount Ousley

  • Wollongongcity in New South Wales, Australia4 km
  • Mount Pleasantsuburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia500 m
  • Gwynnevillelocality in New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
  • West Wollongonglocality in New South Wales, Australia2.6 km
  • Keiravillesuburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia1.1 km
  • Towradgilocality in New South Wales, Australia3.9 km