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Port Botany

Port Botany is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Port Botany
Port Botany · Roger Culos
The place

Port Botany is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Port Botany is located 12 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Randwick. Port Botany sits on the northern shore of Botany Bay, adjacent to the suburbs of Matraville, Banksmeadow and Phillip Bay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Port Botany

6 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
    Malabar Beach

    Malabar Beach is a beach in Malabar, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located to the south of Maroubra Beach and to the north of Little Bay and La Perouse. The Randwick Golf Club is located on the cliffs on the right side and Malabar Headland on the cliffs on the left side.

    3.4 km · beach in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Westfield Eastgardens

    Westfield Eastgardens is a large shopping centre in the suburb of Eastgardens in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.

    3.5 km · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Southpoint Shopping Centre

    Southpoint Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in the suburb of Hillsdale in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia, south-east of the CBD.

    3 km · shopping mall in Hillsdale, New South Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Old Sir Joseph Banks Hotel

    The Old Sir Joseph Banks Hotel is a heritage-listed former hotel at 23 Anniversary Street, Botany, Bayside Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1840 to 1874.

    2.7 km · historic site in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park

    Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium and Botany General Cemetery, is a cemetery and crematorium on Bunnerong Road in Matraville, New South Wales, in the eastern suburbs district of Sydney, Australia.

    900 m · cemetery in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    La Perouse Mission Church

    The La Perouse Mission Church is a heritage-listed former church building and now vacant building and unused church located at 46 Adina Avenue, La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1894 to 1930.

    1.7 km · church 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 Port Botany

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 5 km · Newcastle (NTL), 143 km
  • Williamtown → Port Botany
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · A$23–30
  • Gold Coast → Port Botany
    697 km · quickest by air, 4h 53m · A$210–320
  • Melbourne → Port Botany
    707 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · A$210–320
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Port Botany

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere is no ferry to La Perouse, but there is a plan to reinstate a ferry service (F10) to Kurnell which was ceased in 1974 due to a storm.

From Wikivoyage: La Perouse, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-02.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    992 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,091 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,288 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,859 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,274 km

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

Around it

Next door to Port Botany

Port Botany is 12 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Maroubrasuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.8 km
  • La Perousesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.9 km
  • Malabarsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
  • Botanysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.4 km
  • Matravillesuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.6 km
  • Phillip Baysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.4 km