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Port Noarlunga

Port Noarlunga is a suburb in the City of Onkaparinga, South Australia.

Port Noarlunga
Port Noarlunga · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Port Noarlunga is a suburb in the City of Onkaparinga, South Australia. It is a small sea-side suburb, with a population of 2,918, about 30 kilometres to the south of the Adelaide city centre and was originally created as a sea port. This area is now popular as a holiday destination or for permanent residents wishing to commute to Adelaide or work locally. There is a jetty that connects to a 1.6 kilometres natural reef that is exposed at low tide.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Port Noarlunga

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
    Onkaparinga River Recreation Park

    Onkaparinga River Recreation Park is a protected area occupying land in the estuary of the Onkaparinga River in South Australia. The recreation park which was established in 1985 is approximately 32 km from Adelaide city centre.

    2.2 km · park in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Centro Colonnades

    Colonnades Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the suburb of Noarlunga Centre, on a large allotment of land with access from Goldsmith Drive, Beach Road and Burgess Road.

    2.2 km · shopping mall in Noarlunga Center, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hickinbotham Oval

    Hickinbotham Oval is an Australian rules football stadium in Noarlunga Downs, an outer-southern suburb of Adelaide. It has been the home of South Australian National Football League club South Adelaide Football Club since 1995.

    1.7 km · Australian Football Stadium · 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 Noarlunga

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 23 km
Stations
Christie Downs railway station, 2.9 km · Noarlunga Centre Interchange, 1.8 km · Korro railway station, 4 km · Noarlunga railway station, 3.5 km · Seaford Meadows railway station, 3.5 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Port Noarlunga
    656 km · quickest by air, 5h 54m · A$270–400
  • Melbourne → Port Noarlunga
    652 km · quickest by air, 5h 39m · A$250–380
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Port Noarlunga
    1157 km · quickest by air, 7h 25m · A$260–400
  • 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 Port Noarlunga

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFor a day trip, you can rent a bicycle and take the Coast to Vines Rail Trail (see Do section) to get to McLaren Vale and Willunga.

From Wikivoyage: McLaren Vale, 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
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    130 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,180 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,787 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,707 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,652 km

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

Around it

Next door to Port Noarlunga

Port Noarlunga is 27 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.