Bird's Eye Views of New South Wales, Australia

Soar over the Australian state of New South Wales in this drone video compilation, which was created with footage from the "Bird's Eye Views of New South Wales, Australia" collection.  You'll be treated to bird's eye views of the beaches of Sydney, Royal National Park, the Blue Mountains, and more.

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The Australian state of New South Wales is the largest state in Australia by population.  It occupies most of the southern half of its endless eastern coastline, between the state of Queensland to the north and the state of Victoria to the south.  Top contributor BigHeadGreg used a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone to create this marvelous aerial tour of areas of NSW outside of Sydney, which includes aerial footage of the Blue Mountains, Royal National Park, Palm Beach, Jervis Bay and Seas Cliff Bridge.   

Would you drop everything and buy a one-way ticket to Australia? Would it be worth the risk? It was for the duo behind backpackpassion. Follow their incredible journey road tripping along Australia’s east coast with a DJI Mavic Pro drone. When you see this DVOW Finalist video you'll appreciate that New South Wales and Queensland aren't just about the big coastal cities; they have endless coastlines and expansive interiors.  Spoiler alert – you will also see some wild horses and a couple kangaroos.  

Top contributor and drone pilot Scientik created this marvelous drone video from a trip to Australia.  The footage was shot around the state of New South Wales, which covers much of southeastern Australia.  The video alternates between the two most widely-recognized natural features of NSW.  The first is its long coastline, where spectacular cliffs drop down to the sea in places and create secluded beaches in others.  The other is the Blue Mountains area in the interior of the state, which features incredible rock formations.  

Top AirVuz contributor earned a spot as a DVOW Finalist with this fantastic aerial video from the harbor of Sydney, Australia.  At about the :26 mark, you'll see the famous Harbor Bridge, which connects the CBD to the harbor's North Shore.  Starting at around :37, the focus shifts to the Opera House, which is located just east of the bridge and is perhaps Australia's most iconic spot.  At around 1:08, you'll see the Sydney Tower, and at 1:50 there's a magnificent shot of the Opera House with the skyscrapers of the CBD in the background.  

While the idyllic city of Sydney is certainly the most recognized spot in the Australian state of New South Wales, there is certainly much more to see in this giant territory on the eastern side of the country.  AirVuz contributor Scott O'Hara shows the way in this fantastic drone video compilation covering some lesser-known but equally amaing places in NSW.  The video features footage from the coal-driven port city of Newcastle, Nelson Bay, Catherine Hill Bay, Glenrock State Recreation Area, Warners Bay and surrounds, and more.  

With over a million views, this viral aerial video from the eastern coast of Australia is worth a watch. Cinematographer and drone pilot Jaxon Roberts, along with yogi and social media influencer Sally Mustang, brings us dolphins, horses, palm trees, beaches, and more in this must-see drone video of the beautiful Byron Bay.  Byron Bay is located in the northeastern corner of the state of New South Wales, just a bit to the south of Gold Coast in the neighboring state of Queensland.

Newcastle, Australis is home to one of the world's largest dry bulk ports.  Located in the state of New South Wales, Newcastle is the primary export port for Australia's vast coal trade.  While Australia is the world's fourth largest coal producer, it's the largest coal exporter, and Newcastle is the world's largest coal export port.  In this video, contributor thescience of travel gives us a bird's eye view of the great harbor as well as the railroads which feed it millions of tons of product from mines in the interior.   

For a first upload to AirVuz, new contributor Mac Sealy brings us this excellent drone video from the seaside city of Wollongong, Australia.  Wollongong is located in the Illawarra Region of New South Wales, about two-thirds of the way down the state's long eastern coastline.  With a population of around 300k, it's the third-largest city in NSW after Sydney and Newcastle.  The video opens with a nice shot of the Wollongong Head Lighthouse (aka the Flagstaff Hill Lighthouse), which lies on a small promontory along the city's coastline.  

Top contributor and drone pilot Luke Nathan brings us this epic bird's eye view of Wentworth Falls in the heart of Australia's Blue Mountains.  The waterfall is one of the main attractions in this mountain range in the southeastern state of New South Wales, much of which is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage natural site.  Wentworth Falls is a three tier waterfall with a total height of 187 meters (614 ft.).  It's situated within a national park by the same name located just a short drive west of Sydney.

Sydney's Bondi Beach is widely considered to be one of the finest not only in Australia but in the world.  Known for surfing and all other manner of aquatic recreation, it is one of the top tourist destinations in New South Wales, and for Australia as a whole.  Contributor and pilot Paul Vlad created this awesome video which not only demonstrates the stunning beauty of this beach which lies just a few km/mi east of central Sydney but also shows the power of the DJI Mavic Pro drone to create epic aerial footage.  

Top contributor BenMack brings us this stunning drone video from a remote bit of beach in New South Wales, the main state of eastern Australia.  Jervis Bay is about a three hour drive south of Sydney, in the far less populated southern half of the NSW coastline.  It is known for its brilliant white sands, which are composed of nearly purely quartz and is said to be the whitest in the world.  The best known town here is Hyams Beach, which lies in the southwestern part of the roughly oval-shaped bay.  

Australia's Cotter Dam was vital to the construction of its capital city Canberra.  The dam was built not for electricity generation but to serve as a critical source of freshwater needed to make Canberra, a compromise choice, the permanent capital of Australia when it became an independent country in the early 1900's (after an interim period when Melbourne was the capital).  Matteo Pictures used a drone to create this spectacular aerial view of this gravity dam in southeastern Australia.  

Check out this rather amazing drone video of some sharks stuffing themselves with fish just off the coast of eastern Australia, compliments of contributor Jasonkmclean.  The area where this took place is called the Central Coast, an area of the state of New South Wales a bit north of Sydney.  Australia is definitely a shark country; although extremely rare, Australia has been the scene of the highest number of confirmed unprovoked shark attacks on a per capita basis of any country over the past 50 years. 

See a magical moment in New South Wales, Australia in this amazing drone video by top AirVuz contributorand pilot Jasonkmclean. The most populous state of the land Down Under is home to many national parks and coastal cities like Sydney and Newcastle.  Despite its millions of inhabitants though, along the vast shoreline you’ll occasionally come across a scene like the one you’ll see here: a seal, presumably  fishing for its dinner amongst a giant pod of fish, manages to scatter them in a way which is absolutely mesmerizing to watch.   

Contributor and pilot Skys_Feed used a DJI Phantom 4 drone to create this beautiful video of the Macquarie Lighthouse, the oldest in Australia.  It is situated in Vaucluse, a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales.  The lighthouse is situated in an area critical to shipping navigation in and out of the Sydney Harbor.  The present lighthouse was built in 1881-83.  The lighthouse is still operational, and the site is now protected by designation under the New South Wales State Heritage Register.

Check out this amazing aerial view of Australia's Nelson Bay, compliments of contributor and drone pilot LukeNathan.  Nelson Bay is located at about the center of the long coastline of the state of New South Wales in the southeastern part of this massive country.  The southern half of the bay is formed by a peninsula which juts out into the sea in a northeastern direction from the city of Newcastle.  Nelson Bay is home to some of the best whale- and dolphin-watching spots in all of Australia.  

Content creator and pilot lewis blackburn media is literally over the edge in this drone footage of Australia's Blue Mountains in the eastern state of New South Wales. The massive rock face he sits upon drops straight down into the mossy landscape below with a trickling waterfall flowing beside it. His aerial shots pan across to capture the Three Sisters sandstone formations that are one of the main distinctive features of the landscape here.  This video was a Finalist for the Drone Video of the Week.

Narrow Neck is a trail in Blue Mountains National Park, which is situated in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The trail located near Katoomba, the largest town in these very accessible mountains.  Located about 100 km (around 60 mi.) west of the Sydney suburbs, the famous trail is known for its stunning views of the surrounding mountains as well as for its thousands of lush trees. Get a bird's eye view of this outdoor-seekers paradise, compliments of content creator and drone pilot Tim Harris.

While canyons are generally noted for their depth, there is something to being the world's widest canyon.  While there's no universal agreement on this point, it's generally believed that this title belongs to Capertee Canyon in southeastern Australia.  Located in the interior of New South Wales about a two hour drive from Sydney, the canyon follows the Capertee River.  Tim Harris created this drone video of the canyon (sometimes referred to as a valley) which is also noted for its bird life.  

Check out this stunning drone video of Australia's Wattamolla Beach, compliments of top content creator and pilot LukeNathan.  It's located near the mouth of the creek of the same name in the state of New South Wales, just a bit south of Sydney.  With a beautiful cove and lagoon, it's one of the more beautiful spots on this stretch of the NSW coastline.  The name of the area comes from the aboriginal word for "place of the running water" in reference to the creek.  The video was shot with a DJI Phantom 4 drone.

AirVuz contributo Oz Straya Panoramas used an Autel Lite+ drone to create this beautiful drone video from Australia's Tweed River Valley.  The waterway runs a generally northeasterly course of about 50 mi. (around 80 km) in northern New South Wales, emptying into the Coral Sea just a few mi./km south of the border with the neighboring state of Queensland.   The Tweed drains a portion of the Great Dividing Range, a chain of mountains which runs generally parallel to Australia's eastern coasline.  

Content crator and pilot Matteo Pictures created this stunning drone video of a remote yet very well known beach in southeastern Australia.  Hyams Beach is located near the southern end of the coastline of the state of New South Wales.  It's a 2-3 hour drive south of Sydney, not far from the border with the neighboring state of Victoria.  The beach is known for its deep turquoise colored waters.  Hyams Beach sits on a nearly-enclosed body of water called Jarvia Bay, beyond which lies the open ocean.  

Contributor and pilot DroneKUMELL used a Xiaomi Mi drone to create this aerial tour of what is considered Australia's most famous lighthouse.  Cape Byron Light is on Cape Byron, which is just a few km/mi from the town of Byron Bay in New South Wales.  It has the distinction of being the easternmost point in Australia.  Completed in 1901, it's light intensity is about 2.2 million candela, making it the most powerful lighthouse in the country.  The lighthouse attracts about 500,000 visitors per year.

Lord Howe Island is a very small Australian island in the Tasman Sea. It is just easy of Port Macquarie and is characterized by its sandy beaches, clear waters, and subtropical forests. The south end of the island is home to Mount Gower, rising at nearly 3,000 feet, while the north end has many coral-rich waters. You can even find masked boobies, the white and black masked bird, among the many seabird colonies that call the island home. See it from above in this drone video by Isabellefabre!

Australia's Warrumbungle National Park is a giant preserve in the Outback of the state of New South Wales, about 550 km (around 350 mi.) northwest of Sydney.  Seen here in this drone video by skys_feed, the park is named for the range of jagged outcrop mountains, one of which is the focus of the video: Belougery Split Rock, an example of the type of peaks found here.  Added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2006, the park is home to a large number of woodland birds and is part of what is known as an Important Bird Area.

The coastline of Australia's state of New South Wales is enormous - it's over 2.1k km (a bit over 1.3k mi.) from the border with Queensland to the north to the southern border with Victoria.  Virtually all of the major coastal towns and cities lie in Sydney and points north.  That leaves many hundreds of km/mi of coastline with few population centers of any size.  In this drone video from Andyhutchinson, you will get a bird's eye view of some of the beautiful but virtually unknown spots along the southern NSW coastline.  

Here is a drone video from a beautiful spot in the far northern reaches of Australia's state of New South Wales, compliments of noah.creative.  Fingal Head is a small promontory (peninsula) which lies just a few km/mi south of the border with the state of Queensland.  The point is distinguished by Cook Island, a small uninhabited bit of rock.  The roughly 500 meter (1.7k ft.) waterway which separates Cook Island from the mainland is called Giants Causeway. Fingal Head is also marked with a small lighthouse which was built in 1878.  

Top AirVuz contributor and pilot Simonology brings us this excellent drone video from Australia's Hat Head National Park.  The park lies on the coast of New South Wales, roughly 290 miles (around 460 km) north of Sydney and a roughly similar distance south of Brisbane.  The park is part of the Hastings-Macleay Important Bird Area, whose floodplain wetlands and swamp forests are home to numerous avian species. The park is particularly well known for its populations of kookaburra, black swans, egrets, herons, fantails, and honeyeaters.  

Check out this beautiful aerial video of Port Stephens, Australia, compliments of top contributors Flip Flop Squad.  The city of about 25,000 sits on the south shore of a large estuary formed by the Myall and Karuah Rivers, two of the larger waterways in the state of New South Wales.  It's located about a two hour drive northeast (following the coastline) of Sydney.  Like most of the towns and cities of eastern Australia, it was discovered and named by British explorer Captain James Cook in the late 18th century.

Check out this fantastic drone video from eastern Australia, courtesy of contributor Saras Salvador.  It was filmed in the North Coast area of New South Wales, the country's largest state.  Situated several hundred km/mi north of Sydney, this area is a well known bioregion.  The area runs along the coast of the Tasman Sea and extends some ways inland.  Its ecosystem is home to a number of rare and endangered species of flora and fauna.  Most of the area is now part of the NSW Bioregion, which covers almost 4 million hectares.  

Hanging Rock is an old gold mining village and rock face in New South Wales, Australia. The Hanging Rock seen in this drone video by skys_feed is, obviously, the incredible rock face. Located near Baltzer Lookout at the end of Ridgewell Road in Blackheath, it is a huge, overhanging block of sandstone that juts out into Grose Valley in the Blue Mountains National Park. The incredible, wide-open sky and stunning sunrise that surround the area can be seen from an aerial perspective in this piece.

AirVuz contributor Oz Straya Panoramas brings us this excellent drone video from Australia's Tweed Coast.   The Tweed Coast refers to the northernmost part of the coastline of New South Wales, south of the Gold Coast area (which is part of the neighboring state of Queensland) and north of Byron Bay.  The specific part of the coast shown in the video is the area around Brunswick Heads, a small village which lies at the mouth of the Brunswick River.  The video was filmed with an Autel Lite drone.  

AirVuz contributor Gizmo Drones brings us this fantastic drone video of a wind farm in eastern Australia.  It's the Cullerin Range Wind Farm, and it's located on some comparatively high ground in the shire (essentially, county) of Upper Lachlan in New South Wales.  The area here is part of the Southern Tablelands, a generally flat region to the southwest of Sydney and across (ie, to the west of) the Great Dividing Range.  Opened in 2009, the wind farm has a rated capacity of about 30 MW.  

One of the natural wonders of Australia's state of New South Wales is a range of mini-mountains which resemble pagodas made of stones.  Sometimes called the Gardens of Stone, these giant rock formations are located about 90 minutes northwest of Sydney in a region known as the Central Tablelands.  In this drone video by contributor Tim Harris, you'll get a bird's eye view of some of these pagodas.  The spot filmed is in Newnes State Forest, which lies just to the south of the Gardens of Stone National Park.  

Check out this drone video of Australia's scenic Sea Cliff Bridge, compliments of AirVuz contributor Aussieskys.  Opened in 2005, the bridge carries traffic along the rocky coastline of the Illawarra Region of New South Wales, about an hour's drive south of Sydney.  Its balanced cantilever design is one of fewer than ten in the world as of 2022.   The bridge has a total length of about 1.5k ft. or around 450 m.  It's actually part of a system of two bridges, the other being the Lawrence Hargrave Drive Bridge.   

AirVuz contributor and pilot Mac Sealy brings us this excellent sunset drone video from the city of Wollongong, Australia.  The "star" of the video is the Wollongong Head Lighthouse (aka Flagstaff Hill Lighthouse), which lies adjacent to the Wollongong Harbor.   The reinforced concrete structure stands 82 ft. tall (around 25 m) and is still active.  Completed in 1936, it was the first lighthouse to be built in the state of New South Wales since 1903.    The video also features some aerial footage of the city of Wollongong itself.  

Top AirVuz contributor and skilled first person view (FPV) pilot Gareth Haymen takes us on an epic cruise along a remote spot on the Australian coast.  It's called Horsehead Rock, and it's located near the southern coastline of New South Wales.  It's part of a region known as the Saphire coast, roughly halfway between the cities of Sydney (at the northern end of the NSW coast) and Melbourne in the neighboring state of Victoria.  This video was picked for the FPV Pilots to Watch list in April, 2021.  

Get an aerial view of Australia's Tweed Coast in this drone video by AirVuz contributor Oz Straya Panoramas.  The video was filmed over Kingscliff Beach, which is just south of the town of Tweed Heads in the northeastern corner of New South Wales.  While the area is sometimes considered part of the greater Gold Coast, most of which lies in the neighboring state of Queensland, the area around Tweeds Head has increasingly adopted a distinctive identity as the Tweed Coast or alternatively as the North Coast.  

Cape Byron is one of the more prominent features of the long coastline of New South Wales, Australia.  The tip of the cape represents the easternmost point of mainland Australia, and the north side of it forms Byron Bay.   In this drone video by Davac Digital Art, you'll get a bird's eye view of a pod of dolphins making their way through the semi-protected waters of the bay, which is a short distance south of the Queensland border and a roughly two hour drive south of Queensland capital Brisbane.

To get an idea of how much Australia's terrain changes when you move inland from the coasts, check out this drone video from contributor ZonieLand.   It was shot in the area around Canberra, the national capital which is situated some ways inland (west) of the coast of New South Wales, more or less southwest from Sydney. This is very much Outback country, which really refers to the Australian interior in general as opposed to any specific place.  If you need any proof of this, check out the kangaroos!   

Check out this fantastic drone video from the Blue Mountains of Australia, compliments of AirVuz contributor and pilot inspirealfilms.  Considered part of a larger formation known as the Great Dividing Range, the Blue Mountains are located just a bit west of Sydney in the state of New South Wales.  The video opens with shots of the Three Sisters rock formation, probably the most well-known spot in the Blue Mountains.  Perched over the Jamison Valley, the tallest of the three sandstone pillars is about 3k ft. above sea level (922 m.).

Sfdrones brings us this beautiful drone video of Newcastle, the second largest city Australia's New South Wales state.  The city was built on a foundation of coal, for decades Ausralia's biggest export product (now a close second to iron ore).  For most of the 20th century, it was also the center of Australia's steel industry, although the gigantic BHP steelworks which once employed 50k was shut down in 1999.  While maintaining its industrial heritage, Newcastle is also home to some of NSW's top beaches.  

Check out these stunning drone views from Greater Sydney, Australia, compliments of AirVuz contributor Simonology.  Opening with a shot of the Harbor Bridge, one of Australia's most-recognized landmarks, the video features excellent footage of Royal National Park, just south of Sydney; Kamay Botany Bay National Park, a bit closer to the city; Palm Beach, one of the beaches located north of the city; and Sydney Harbour, considered one of the world's finest natural harbors.  The video was shot with the DJI Mavic Air and Mavic Air 2 drones.

AirVuz contributor Oz Straya Panoramas used an Autel Lite drone to create this impressive aerial video of a beautiful spot in the far northern reaches of Australia's state of New South Wales.  Fingal Head is a small promontory (peninsula) which lies just a few km/mi south of the border with the state of Queensland.  The point is distinguished by Cook Island, a small uninhabited bit of rock.  The roughly 500 meter (1.7k ft.) waterway which separates Cook Island from the mainland is called Giants Causeway.