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Suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Woonona

Woonona is a northern suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, south of Sydney.

Woonona
Woonona · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Woonona is a northern suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, south of Sydney. It is served by Woonona Station on the South Coast Line, and by the Princes Highway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Woonona

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
    Brokers Nose

    Brokers Point or Brokers Nose or Corrimal Peak or Brokers Peak, is a point on the Illawarra Range, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

    3.9 km · mountain in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Illawarra escarpment

    The Illawarra escarpment, or officially the Illawarra Range, is the fold-created cliffs and plateau-eroded outcrop mountain range west of the Illawarra coastal plain south of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The range encloses the Illawarra region which stretches from Stanwell Park in the north to Kiama, Gerringong and the Shoalhaven River in the south.

    4 km · mountain range in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bulli Pass

    Bulli Pass is a mountain pass with an elevation of 283 metres AHD located northwest of Bulli, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on the Illawarra escarpment west of the Illawarra coastal plain.

    2.8 km · mountain pass in New South Wales · 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.

Go there

Getting to Woonona

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 51 km · Newcastle (NTL), 192 km
Stations
Bellambi railway station, 2.4 km · Bulli railway station, 1.1 km · Corrimal railway station, 3.8 km · Thirroul railway station, 2.9 km · Woonona railway station, 1.2 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Woonona
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · A$8–10
  • Williamtown → Woonona
    191 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · A$28–38
  • Melbourne → Woonona
    659 km · quickest by air, 7h 2m · A$320–450
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Woonona

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA good cycle route could take 60 km mostly off-road from Bulli to Kiama, hugging the coast and headlands the whole way, and passing close to all Wollongong has to offer.
  • Go nextIf you are staying in Wollongong, Sydney is a fairly comfortable day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Wollongong, 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

    1,038 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,044 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,252 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,852 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,280 km

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

Around it

Next door to Woonona

Woonona is 60 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bullisuburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia1.5 km
  • Thirroullocality in New South Wales, Australia3.1 km
  • Corrimallocality in New South Wales, Australia3.1 km
  • Bellambilocality in New South Wales, Australia3.1 km
  • Russell Valelocality in New South Wales, Australia1.9 km