Seacliff Park, South Australia

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Seacliff Park
Adelaide,  South Australia
Population2,644 (SAL 2021) [1]
Postcode(s) 5049
LGA(s)
State electorate(s) Black
Federal division(s) Boothby
Suburbs around Seacliff Park:
Seacliff South Brighton Dover Gardens
Kingston Park Seacliff Park Seaview Downs
Marino Hallett Cove Trott Park

Seacliff Park is a suburb of Adelaide partly in the City of Marion and the City of Holdfast Bay. The suburb is adjacent to South Brighton in the north, Seaview Downs to the east, Hallett Cove to the south, and Marino and Seacliff on its western side. [2] The suburb is divided diagonally by Ocean Road, with the northern part of the suburb mainly residential, and the southern park partly occupied by a golf course and a quarry. [3]

Prior to the 1836 British colonisation of South Australia, the area was inhabited by the Kaurna people, who occupied the land from Cape Jervis in the south up the western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, to Crystal Brook in the north, west to the Mount Lofty Ranges, across to Gulf Saint Vincent, including the Adelaide Plains and city of Adelaide. [4] [5]

The Kaurna name for the area was Wita-wattingga, or Wita-wita, was the Kaurna name of an area on the north side of O'Halloran Hill, which was then covered in low woodland of Eucalyptus porosa and/or Eucalyptus odorata known as mallee peppermint gums. The forested area named thus included the north-western slopes at South Brighton and Seaview Downs, across to Seacliff Park, and probably also included the area across the hill nearly as far as the present Main South Road as well as westwards as far as the eastern slopes of Marino. The place name was recorded in 1837 as "Weta wertinga", although its meaning, "in the midst of peppermint gums" was only recorded later. The name may have been a generic name applied to other places with peppermint gums; a similar name, Witawatang, was also applied to an area near Rapid Bay. [6]

Seacliff Park Post Office opened on 15 January 1995, replacing the nearby South Brighton office. [7]

In the 2016 Australian census, there were 2,439 people living in Seacliff Park. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Seacliff Park (Suburb and Locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "South Australian Property and Planning Atlas". SAPPA. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Seacliff Park". Google Maps. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "Map(s) of Kaurna Country". Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi. The University of Adelaide . Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Tjilbruke Story". Port Adelaide Enfield. 12 August 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  6. ↑ Schultz, Chester (12 January 2012). "Place Name Summary (PNS) 2/21: Wita-wattingga (Seacliff Park)" (PDF). Adelaide Research & Scholarship. The Southern Kaurna Place Names Project. University of Adelaide . Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  7. ↑ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
  8. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Seacliff Park (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 25 November 2020. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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Coordinates: 35°01′52″S138°31′55″E / 35.031°S 138.532°E / -35.031; 138.532


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