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# Fullerton Cove

Fullerton Cove is a rural suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, located just north of Fern Bay and adjacent to Fullerton Cove, from which the suburb gets its name.

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## Every way there

- Sydney (Mascot) → Fullerton Cove 135 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · A$22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sydney-mascot-to-fullerton-cove) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sydney+%28Mascot%29&to=Fullerton+Cove)
- Gold Coast → Fullerton Cove 559 km · quickest by air, 3h 53m · A$200–300 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gold-coast-to-fullerton-cove) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gold+Coast&to=Fullerton+Cove)
- Toowoomba → Fullerton Cove 587 km · quickest by air, 5h 32m · A$230–590 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/toowoomba-to-fullerton-cove) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Toowoomba&to=Fullerton+Cove)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Fullerton Cove, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Fullerton Cove has

- Y Scheduled flights Williamtown (NTL), 5 km
- F Trains and coaches 34 feeds listed in the Mobility Database, not compiled yet (Translink Magnetic Island, TransLink Maryborough-Hervey Bay, TransLink North Stradbroke Island)
- Y Ferries Muloobinba / Queens Wharf, 9 km, Keolis; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Newcastle, 11 km.

-32.843°, 151.826°

The Worimi people are the traditional owners of the Port Stephens area. At the 2021 Australian census the population of Fullerton Cove was 745.

How locals move

## Getting around Fullerton Cove the local way

- Get around There is a single ferry service between and , costing $2.40 each way, also using Opal cards.

From [Wikivoyage: Newcastle (New South Wales)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Newcastle_(New_South_Wales%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerton_Cove), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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