Driving time and distance Canberra ACT To Mount Gambier Airport 1,064 km - about 13 hours
It takes around 5.5 hours to drive from Melbourne to Mt Gambier.
A couple of hours.
5-6 hours
3 hrs drive
As it is just 12 km from Queanbeyan to the centre of Canberra, the trip takes about 15 minutes to drive.
It is 163km from Gundagai to Canberra. Estimated travel time is just over an hour and a half.
From Canberra to Parkes by road is a distance of 291 km. The drive takes around 4 hours 45 minutes, without breaks.
From Canberra to Bathurst is a distance of 297km. Travel time is just under four and a half hours.
About 3 hours to Jindabyne but about 3 and a half hours to Thredbo which is the closest you can drive.
The extinct volcano of Mount Gambier, around which the city of the same name is built, lies between Melbourne (Victoria) and Adelaide (South Australia). James Grant was a young lieutenant who went out on a survey voyage of the southern coast. He was ordered to claim in the King's name any large rivers and good pastureland, as long as he did so only with the consent of any native inhabitants who might be present. On 3 December 1800, Grant discovered and named Cape Northumberland. Beyond Cape Northumberland, he sighted Mount Gambier, naming it after Admiral Lord James Gambier, who had commanded the fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen.
James Grant was a young lieutenant sent out on a survey voyage of the southern coast. Grant was given orders to take possession in the King's name of any large rivers and good pastureland, as long as such possession was done with the consent of any native inhabitants who might be present. On 3 December 1800, Grant sighted Mount Gambier, naming it after Admiral Lord James Gambier, who had commanded the fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen.
281 km - about 3 hours 38 mins