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Village in New South Wales, Australia

Tumbulgum

Tumbulgum is a village in northern New South Wales, Australia.

Tumbulgum
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The place

Tumbulgum is a village in northern New South Wales, Australia. It is in the Tweed Shire local government area, at the confluence of the Rous and Tweed Rivers. It is 818 kilometres (508 mi) north east of the state capital, Sydney and 120 kilometres (75 mi) south east of Brisbane.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Tumbulgum

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 13 km · Brisbane (BNE), 106 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 185 km
  • Brisbane → Tumbulgum
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · A$15–19
  • Toowoomba → Tumbulgum
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · A$27–36
  • Maroochydore → Tumbulgum
    184 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · A$27–36
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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 Tumbulgum

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMurwillumbah also has an airport, but scheduled with very few flights, mostly charter.

From Wikivoyage: Murwillumbah, 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
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    344 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,738 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,760 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,226 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,057 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tumbulgum

Tumbulgum is 32 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.