Lugarno is a suburb situated in the St George area of southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

It is located in the local government area of the Georges River Council, 23 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district.

They are now thought to have gone as far as Lime Kiln Bay, where they landed at two locations there, the first of which they called 'Lance Point'—thought to be modern-day Gertrude Point, Lugarno—where an altercation with local people occurred.

Not finding enough freshwater, around Botany Bay and its two 'arms', the colonists moved on to Port Jackson, where the settlement of Sydney began six days later.

[5][6] Lugarno was named after Lake Lugano, Switzerland by surveyors Major Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855) and William Govett (1807-1848) in 1843.

Thomas Lawrence was granted 120 acres (0.49 km2) of land in 1831, on the western side of the peninsula near Salt Pan Creek.

[8] The furthest upstream leases of the former Georges River oyster farming industry were located off Soily Bottom Point, Lugarno.

[13][14][15][16] After the market garden became disused, the area was threatened by housing development, until it was saved as open space and sporting fields.

[17] According to a 2012 survey conducted by the governments of Australia and New Zealand, Lugarno has the most roundabouts per capita in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Lugarno-Peakhurst Uniting Church organises a netball competition which takes place at Olds Park, Penshurst.

24.6% of census respondents stated they were born overseas with the top countries of birth being China 3.5%, England 2.2%, Greece 1.3%, North Macedonia 1.2% and Egypt 1.1%.