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Locality · Australia · New South Wales

# Somersby

Go there

## Getting to Somersby

**Airports:** Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 65 km · Newcastle (NTL), 82 km\

- Sydney (Mascot) → Somersby 63 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · A$10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sydney-mascot-to-somersby) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sydney+%28Mascot%29&to=Somersby)
- Williamtown → Somersby 81 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · A$12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/williamtown-to-somersby) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Williamtown&to=Somersby)
- Gold Coast → Somersby 631 km · quickest by air, 5h 22m · A$320–470 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gold-coast-to-somersby) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gold+Coast&to=Somersby)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Somersby)

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 Somersby

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in Ettalong is accessible by ferry from Palm Beach in Sydney with the passenger ferry crossing the Hawkesbury river every hour or so.
- Get in On the western end, there's car ferries from Wisemans Ferry which operate every few minutes.
- Go next Travel to Sydney's Northern Beaches on the Palm Beach ferry and go walking in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.

From [Wikivoyage: Central Coast (New South Wales)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Central_Coast_(New_South_Wales%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kgari) AU 8 ways of moving, 31 sources 924 km
2. [Bruny Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bruny-island) AU 11 ways of moving, 24 sources 1,158 km
3. [Kangaroo Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kangaroo-island) AU 9 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,311 km
4. [Milford Sound / Piopiotahi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milford-sound) NZ 8 ways of moving, 32 sources 1,904 km
5. [Wakatobi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wakatobi) ID 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 4,233 km

If you know how people move in Somersby – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csomersby&title=Somersby&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsomersby), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Somersby

Somersby is 11 km from [Central Coast](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/central-coast), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

[The place page for Somersby](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/somersby) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Australia](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-AU)


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