Ulladulla

Postcode: 2539

Ulladulla is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia in Shoalhaven City. It is on the Princes Highway, about half way between the larger towns of Batemans Bay to the south and Nowra to the north, a little over three hours' drive south of Sydney. The Ulladulla area is a seven-kilometre stretch of continuous urban residential development from the southern edge of Ulladulla, through the town of Mollymook, to Narrawallee in the north, terminating at the Narrawallee estuary.

The underdeveloped beaches along this stretch are mainly populated by Sydneysiders and Canberrans during holiday periods, although Canberrans largely holiday further south, to Kioloa and Batemans Bay. The area is largely unknown to Victorian holiday makers, who usually frequent more southerly destinations such as Eden and Merimbula.

The name "Ulladulla" comes from the aboriginal word Nulladulla, which apparently means "safe harbour".

The town gained its first traffic light in the 1990s; one of its most notable landmarks is the Marlin Hotel with its big fluorescent marlin on the roof, which can be viewed from the sea.

Ulladulla is surrounded by the adjoining towns of Milton and Burrill Lake as well as Mollymook and Narrawallee. The extended area from Burrill Lake to Milton is referred to as the Milton–Ulladulla area. There are two high schools and three primary schools in the district.

Satirists John Doyle and Greg Pickhaver used a fictionalised version of Ulladulla as the setting for the popular radio comedy monologue "This is the South Coast News". Performed by journalist Paul Murphy, it was a regular segment for several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the weekly radio comedy This Sporting Life and the scripts were later published in book form by the ABC.

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