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Waverton

Waverton is a harbour-side suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Waverton
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The place

Waverton is a harbour-side suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Waverton is four kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Waverton

10 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
    Art Gallery of New South Wales

    The Art Gallery of New South Wales, founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest in Australia.

    3.8 km · public art gallery and museum in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

    The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, formerly the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, is located on George Street in The Rocks neighbourhood of Sydney. The museum is housed in the Stripped Classical/Art Deco-styled former Maritime Services Board building on the western side of Circular Quay.

    2.6 km · art museum in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Citigroup Centre

    Citigroup Centre is a 243-metre skyscraper located on Park Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The building draws its name from Citigroup Australia who is the anchor tenant.

    3.9 km · skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Chifley Tower

    Chifley Tower is a 53-storey skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by New York City-based architects Travis McEwen and Kohn Pedersen Fox, with John Rayner as project architect.

    3.3 km · skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary’s Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church and Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Mother of God, Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia, locally known as Saint Mary's Cathedral, is a Catholic basilica and the seat of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The cathedral is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the venerated title of “Our Lady, Help of Christians" and Patroness of Australia.

    3.9 km · cathedral in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sydney Town Hall

    The Sydney Town Hall is a late 19th-century heritage-listed town hall building in the city of Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales, Australia, housing the chambers of the Lord Mayor of Sydney, council offices, and venues for meetings and functions. It is located at 483 George Street, in the Sydney central business district opposite the Queen Victoria Building and alongside St Andrew's Cathedral.

    3.9 km · city hall and performance venue · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    ANZAC Bridge

    The Anzac Bridge is an eight-lane cable-stayed bridge that carries the Western Distributor across Johnstons Bay between Pyrmont and Glebe Island, on the western fringe of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge forms part of the road network leading from the central business district, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and Cross City Tunnel to the Inner West and Northern Suburbs.

    3.5 km · cable-stayed bridge in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sea Life Sydney Aquarium

    SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium is a public aquarium in Sydney, Australia. Opened in 1988, it features a large variety of Australian aquatic life, displaying more than 700 species comprising more than 13,000 individual fish and other sea and water creatures from most of Australia's water habitats.

    3.4 km · aquarium in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    MLC Centre

    25 Martin Place is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. It was originally named the MLC Centre for around 45 years, after the building owner MLC Limited, and is still commonly referred to by that name.

    3.5 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Crown Sydney

    Crown Sydney is a skyscraper in Barangaroo, New South Wales, Australia. Designed by WilkinsonEyre, it stands at a height of 271.3 m with 75 floors, making it the tallest building in Sydney and 4th tallest in Australia.

    2.6 km · building in Sydney, Australia completed in 2020 · 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 Waverton

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 12 km · Newcastle (NTL), 130 km
Stations
Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1.9 km · Port Jackson, 4 km · Mrs Macquarie's Chair, 3.3 km
  • Williamtown → Waverton
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · A$20–27
  • Gold Coast → Waverton
    683 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · A$230–340
  • Toowoomba → Waverton
    702 km · quickest by air, 5h · A$220–340
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Waverton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTo some islands you can catch a scheduled ferry service, either on either Sydney Ferries or Captain Cook/Matilda Ferries.
  • Get inYou can also catch a water taxi, or impose on a friend with a boat to drop you off.
  • Get inIf you catch a Sydney Ferry, it is part of the ferry network.
  • Get inMatilda/Captain Cook ferries, and they don't accept Opal, and only sell return tickets to Circular Quay or Darling Harbour ($17/$15) The do offer bundles with other ferry trips, such as their all day explorer ticket ($42/$26).
  • Get inWater taxi fares start around $50 and go upwards to around $200 which usually includes the first few passengers.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Harbour Islands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    977 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,105 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,290 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,872 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,262 km

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

Around it

Next door to Waverton

Waverton is 3 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sydneycapital city of New South Wales, Australia3.4 km
  • The Rocksurban locality in Sydney's city centre in New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
  • Circular Quaylocality in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.8 km
  • North Sydneysuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.2 km
  • BalmainSuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.9 km
  • Kirribillisuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.2 km