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Rocklea

Rocklea is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Rocklea
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The place

Rocklea is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Rocklea had a population of 1,672 people. Low-lying parts of the suburb are flood prone.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rocklea

8 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
    Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

    Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is an 18-hectare koala sanctuary in the Brisbane suburb of Fig Tree Pocket in Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1927, it is the oldest and largest koala sanctuary of its kind in the world.

    4 km · zoo in Brisbane, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Queensland Tennis Centre

    Queensland Tennis Centre, known during its development as the Tennyson Tennis Centre, is a tennis venue in Tennyson, Brisbane, Australia. It is an A$82 million tennis facility opened on 2 January 2009 at the site of the demolished Tennyson Power Station.

    3.1 km · tennis stadium in Brisbane, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Toohey Mountain

    Toohey Mountain is a mountain at the eastern side of the City of Brisbane's suburb of Moorooka in Queensland, Australia. It was named after James Toohey, an Irish born Sydneysider who made his wealth in the California gold rush, before settling in the newly formed state of Queensland.

    3.8 km · mountain in Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Brisbane Christian College

    Brisbane Christian College is an independent, non-denominational Christian co-educational school located in the Brisbane suburb of Salisbury, Queensland, Australia. Established in 1985, the College offers education from Pre-Prep to Year 12 and operates as a ministry of Life Church Brisbane.

    2 km · Brisbane Christian College is a K-12 Private School in Brisbane · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Brisbane Golf Club

    Brisbane Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course in Tennyson Memorial Avenue, Yeerongpilly, Queensland in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

    2.8 km · 18-hole golf course in Tennyson Memorial Avenue · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Acacia Ridge Air Raid Shelter

    Acacia Ridge Air Raid Shelter is a heritage-listed former air raid shelter at 174 Mortimer Road, Acacia Ridge, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1942 to c. 1943 by Allied Works Council.

    3 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Archerfield Second World War Igloos Complex

    Archerfield Second World War Igloos Complex is a heritage-listed group of hangars at 98–138 Kerry Road, Archerfield Airport, Archerfield, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. They were built from February 1943 February to circa April 1944 by the Allied Works Council.

    2.9 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    God's Acre Cemetery

    God's Acre Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery in front of Archerfield Airport, along Beatty Road, between Kerry & Mortimer Roads, Archerfield, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as Grenier's Burial Ground, Coopers Plains Cemetery and Oxley Cemetery.

    2.4 km · cemetery in Brisbane, Queensland, 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.

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Getting to Rocklea

Airports
Brisbane (BNE), 22 km · Gold Coast (OOL), 84 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 107 km
Stations
Archerfield Airport, 2 km · Coopers Plains railway station, 3.7 km · Moorooka railway station, 2.2 km · Rocklea railway station, 1.4 km · Salisbury railway station, 2 km
  • Gold Coast → Rocklea
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · A$9–12
  • Maroochydore → Rocklea
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · A$13–18
  • Toowoomba → Rocklea
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · A$14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rocklea

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
  • Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.

From Wikivoyage: Greater Brisbane, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    261 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,744 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,825 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,320 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,973 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rocklea

Rocklea is 10 km from Brisbane, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Coopers Plainssuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3.9 km
  • Yeerongpillysuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2.7 km
  • Tennysonsuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2.2 km
  • Archerfieldsuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2 km
  • Darrasuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3.9 km
  • Moorookasuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3 km