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Suburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Tugun

Tugun is a beach-side coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Tugun
Tugun · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tugun is a beach-side coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Tugun had a population of 7,175 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tugun

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
    Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

    Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary is a heritage-listed zoological garden at 28 Tomewin Street, Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1947 onwards.

    1.5 km · Australian zoo · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Currumbin Rock

    Currumbin is a coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Currumbin had a population of 3,278 people.

    1.8 km · mountain in Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Palm Beach-Currumbin State High School

    Palm Beach Currumbin State High School is an independent public, co-educational, secondary school, located in the Gold Coast suburb of Palm Beach, in Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 2,649 students and a teaching staff of 198, as of 2023.

    2.6 km · government secondary school in Palm Beach, QLD, 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 Tugun

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 2 km · Brisbane (BNE), 93 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 178 km
Stations
Gold Coast Airport, 1.9 km
  • Brisbane → Tugun
    89 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · A$12–16
  • Maroochydore → Tugun
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · A$24–32
  • Toowoomba → Tugun
    166 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · A$24–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tugun

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

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    329 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,747 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,774 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,239 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,049 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tugun

Tugun is 18 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Currumbinsuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia1.8 km
  • Bilingasuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia2 km
  • Currumbin Waterssuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia2.6 km