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Suburb of Shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia

Shell Cove

Shell Cove is an affluent seaside suburb in the Shellharbour area located just south of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

Shell Cove
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Shell Cove is an affluent seaside suburb in the Shellharbour area located just south of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Shell Cove adjoins Bass Point and Killalea State Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Shell Cove

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 77 km · Newcastle (NTL), 219 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Shell Cove
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · A$11–15
  • Williamtown → Shell Cove
    217 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · A$32–43
  • Melbourne → Shell Cove
    639 km · quickest by air, 8h 15m · A$370–530
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shell Cove

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe route from Dunmore station down to Kiama is all off-road or quiet road.
  • Go nextWollongong and Sydney are both a day trip from Kiama.

From Wikivoyage: Kiama, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  2. 02
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    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

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  3. 03
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    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,836 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,296 km

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