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Kurnell
Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Kurnell

Kurnell is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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It is 21.4 kilometres (13.3 mi) south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire along the east coast. Kurnell is adjacent to the suburbs of Cronulla, Woolooware and Greenhills Beach. La Perouse is located opposite, on the northern headland of Botany Bay. The Cronulla sand dunes are on the south eastern headland of Botany Bay. The eastern side of the peninsula is part of Botany Bay National Park, and Towra Point Nature Reserve is located on the western side of the suburb. Residents are affectionately known as ‘Kurnellians’.

Get in

Getting to Kurnell

See Cronulla and Royal National Park for information on how to access those areas, and the information with the attractions on how to access them. Trains run on the Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra and the South Coast line to the district every 15-30 minutes. The journey takes around 30-45 minutes. The city train stations of Central, Town Hall, Martin Place and Kings Cross offer a direct service.

See

Worth seeing

See Cronulla and Royal National Park for sights in those areas of the Sutherland Shire. Other sights in the Sutherland Shire include:

  1. 01
    Oatley Park

    Oatley (2km walk west of Oatley station).

  2. 02
    E.G

    Waterhouse National Camellia Garden, President Ave, Caringbah (2 minutes drive/20 minutes walk from Caringbah along President Avenue).

  3. 03
    Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve

    Garnet Ave, Kareela (Entrance is hard to find, take Bates Drive from Princes Hwy (signposted to Kareela), left on Alpita to end, Left on Garnet to end, left on Manooka to end).

  4. 04
    Como Pleasure Grounds

    Cremona Rd, Como (Walk down the hill from Como Station, turn left on Cremona Road, and follow until the end).

  5. 05
    Captain Cook's Landing Place

    Captain Cook Drive, Kurnell (over Captain Cook Bridge, and along Captain Cook Drive, or train to Cronulla station and a 987 bus to Kurnell).

  6. 06
    Sydney Tramway Museum

    Rawson Pde, Loftus (Adjacent to Loftus Railway Station, no entry from Metroad 1 heading south).

Do

Things to do

Do the things there are to do in Cronulla and the Royal National Park and then: Dive, Shiprock Point Marine Reserve. Shiprock Point in Dolans Bay has a marine reserve. Some tropical fish can even be seen here in the summer months, when the water is warm in February mainly. You can see many fish varieties snorkelling along the rocks all the way around from Lilli Pilli Point to Shiprock.

  1. 01
    Como Marina
  2. 02
    The Boatshed at Woronora

    131 Prince Edward Park Rd, Woronora (Just over the creek bridge, on the right).

Eat

Where to eat

There are a selection of places to eat at Cronulla. As with much of Sydney every shopping strip has at least one decent Australian-Thai restaurant, which may not please the gourmet with service nice food at around $15 a main for dinner, with a lunch special usually $7-10. There is no shortage of Indian and Chinese options too.

  1. 01
    McDonald's Engadine

    Mianga Ave, Engadine (along A1 Princes Hwy northbound),.

  2. 02
    Mr India

    780 Old Princes Hwy, Sutherland (50 m east of Sutherland Station),.

How locals move

Getting around Kurnell the local way

  • Get inThere is no ferry to La Perouse, but there is a plan to reinstate a ferry service (F10) to Kurnell which was ceased in 1974 due to a storm.

From Wikivoyage: La Perouse, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-02.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Maksym Kozlenko (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.