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Suburb of Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia

Tweed Heads West

Tweed Heads West is a suburb of Tweed Heads, located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Tweed Shire along the Queensland and New South Wales border.

Tweed Heads West
Tweed Heads West · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tweed Heads West is a suburb of Tweed Heads, located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Tweed Shire along the Queensland and New South Wales border.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tweed Heads West

2 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
    Duranbah Beach

    Duranbah Beach, officially known as Flagstaff Beach, but also known as Dbah is the northernmost beach in New South Wales. Located in the Tweed Shire, Duranbah Beach is situated between the mouth of the Tweed River and the rocky headland Point Danger which also marks the Queensland-New South Wales border.

    3.6 km · surfing beach in Tweed Shire, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Point Danger Light

    Point Danger Light, also known as the Captain Cook Memorial Light, is an active lighthouse located on Point Danger, a headland between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, marking the border between Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It lays claim to be the first lighthouse in the world to experiment with laser as a light source.

    3.7 km · lighthouse in 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 Tweed Heads West

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 3 km · Brisbane (BNE), 98 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 182 km
Stations
Gold Coast Airport, 3.3 km
  • Brisbane → Tweed Heads West
    94 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · A$12–16
  • Maroochydore → Tweed Heads West
    175 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · A$24–33
  • Toowoomba → Tweed Heads West
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · A$24–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tweed Heads West

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 Tweed Heads West. 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

    333 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,747 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,771 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,234 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,054 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tweed Heads West

Tweed Heads West is 23 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tweed HeadsTown in New South Wales, Australia2.7 km
  • Coolangattasuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia2.5 km
  • Kirraneighbourhood in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia2.4 km
  • Bilingasuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia3.3 km
  • Tweedstate electoral district of New South Wales, Australia1.7 km