[1] It hosts the annual Koonya Garlic Festival, a "one-day celebration".

[3] It was established in 1841 as one of outlying parts of the network of penal colony sites centered on Port Arthur.

[6] A weather radar for the City of Hobart is in the Koonya locality.

[7] Route B37 (Nubeena Road) enters from the north-east and runs through to the north-west, where it exits.

Route C343 (Nubeena Back Road) starts at an intersection with B37 and runs south-west until it exits.