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Pelican Waters

Pelican Waters is a suburb of Caloundra in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

Pelican Waters
Pelican Waters · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Pelican Waters is a suburb of Caloundra in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Pelican Waters had a population of 7,393 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pelican Waters

3 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
    Queensland Air Museum

    The Queensland Air Museum is a not-for-profit all-volunteer aviation museum located in the Caloundra Airport precinct in Queensland, Australia. Its mission is to collect and preserve all aspects of aviation heritage with an emphasis on Australia and Queensland and to display these for the enrichment of the public.

    3.9 km · aerospace museum in Sunshine Coast, Queensland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park

    Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park is a heritage-listed caravan park at Bowman Road, Caloundra CBD, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1912 onwards.

    3.9 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Unity College

    Unity College is a coeducational ecumenical college located in the Bellvista Estate in Caloundra West, a suburb of the Sunshine Coast Region in Queensland, Australia. The college is administered by Brisbane Catholic Education, working in partnership with the Caloundra Catholic and Uniting Churches.

    3.5 km · college in Caloundra, 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 Pelican Waters

Airports
Sunshine Coast (MCY), 27 km · Brisbane (BNE), 61 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 152 km
Stations
Caloundra Airport, 3.5 km
  • Brisbane → Pelican Waters
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · A$11–15
  • Toowoomba → Pelican Waters
    139 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · A$26–35
  • Gold Coast → Pelican Waters
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · A$21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pelican Waters

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 Pelican Waters. 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
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    180 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,799 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,905 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,385 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,938 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pelican Waters

Pelican Waters is 20 km from Sunshine Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Caloundra Westsuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia3 km
  • Golden Beachsuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia2.1 km
  • Baringasuburb of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia3.4 km
  • Bells Creeklocality in Queensland, Australia3.7 km