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Oatley

Oatley is a suburb in Southern Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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The place

Oatley is a suburb in Southern Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 18 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the St George area. Oatley lies in the local government area of Georges River Council. It lies on the northern side of the tidal estuary of the Georges River and its foreshore includes part of Oatley Bay and Lime Kiln Bay, and all of Neverfail Bay, Gungah Bay and Jewfish Bay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oatley

10 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
    Georges River National Park

    Georges River National Park is a protected Australian National Park, under the management of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The park falls in the regions of the Sutherland Shire Council and Canterbury-Bankstown Council.

    3.9 km · National Park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Penshurst Mosque

    The Penshurst Mosque is a mosque in the southern Sydney suburb of Penshurst, in the St George area. The mosque is supervised by the Australian Islamic Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina Inc.

    2.1 km · mosque in Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Green Point Observatory

    Green Point Observatory is a private astronomical observatory in Oyster Bay, Sydney, Australia, and it is the home of the Sutherland Astronomical Society. It is located at the corner of Green Point and Caravan Head Roads.

    2.3 km · astronomical observatory in Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Westfield Hurstville

    Westfield Hurstville is a shopping centre in the suburb of Hurstville in the St George area of Sydney, Australia.

    3.3 km · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mortdale Memorial Park

    Mortdale Memorial Park is a reserve located in the southern Sydney suburb of Mortdale. It contains a war memorial commemorating local people who served their country in time of war.

    1 km · park in southern Sydney suburb of Mortdale · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Oatley Park

    Oatley Park is a 112 acres reserve located on a promontory jutting into the Georges River in the southern Sydney suburb of Oatley. It is bounded by the Georges River, Lime Kiln Bay, and Jew Fish Bay.

    1.4 km · park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hurstville Oval

    Hurstville Oval is a multi-use sporting ground, located in the suburb of Hurstville, in Sydney's southern suburbs. Since its opening, it has held various sports at the venue – including Cricket, Rugby League, Cycling and Football.

    3.2 km · sports ground in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hurstville Central

    Hurstville Central is a shopping centre in the suburb of Hurstville in the St George area of Sydney, Australia. It is located above Hurstville railway station and features a Coles supermarket and around 39 speciality stores.

    3 km · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Oatley Pleasure Grounds

    Oatley Pleasure Grounds is a bush park located in Oatley, New South Wales and it is located on Oatley Bay. The park is 3.4 hectares an sits within the Georges River Council.

    1.3 km · park in Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Como railway bridge

    The Como railway bridge carries the Illawarra railway line across the Georges River between the Sydney suburbs of Oatley and Como.

    1.6 km · bridge in Como · 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 Oatley

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 10 km · Newcastle (NTL), 149 km
Stations
Allawah railway station, 3.9 km · Hurstville railway station, 3 km · Oatley railway station, 400 m · Como railway station, 2.7 km · Jannali railway station, 4 km
  • Williamtown → Oatley
    148 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · A$22–30
  • Gold Coast → Oatley
    702 km · quickest by air, 5h 7m · A$230–340
  • Melbourne → Oatley
    696 km · quickest by air, 5h 9m · A$230–340
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oatley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt enters the Sutherland Shire over the Captain Cook bridge and continues largely off-road or on quiet roads to Cronulla.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/St George and Sutherland Shire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    WakatobiID

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

Around it

Next door to Oatley

Oatley is 18 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hurstvillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.1 km
  • Penshurstsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.6 km
  • Mortdalesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.2 km
  • Oyster Baysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.9 km
  • Jannalisuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
  • Peakhurstsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.1 km