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Somerton Park
Adelaide, South Australia
Somerton Park is located in South Australia
Somerton Park
Somerton Park
Location in South Australia
Population 5,537 (2016 census)
Postcode(s) 5044
Location 12 km (7 mi) from Adelaide
LGA(s) City of Holdfast Bay
State electorate(s)
  • Gibson
  • Morphett
Federal Division(s) Boothby
Suburbs around Somerton Park:
Glenelg South Morphettville
Gulf St Vincent Somerton Park Warradale
North Brighton Warradale

Somerton Park is a seaside suburb of Adelaide in South Australia. The mainly residential suburb is home to the Somerton Park Beach, Sacred Heart College and North Brighton Cemetery.

Notable residents

  • Phil Walsh (1960–2015), coach of Adelaide Football Club, who was killed by his son, who was suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia at the time.
  • The Beaumont children (b. 1956, 1958, 1961), who disappeared at the nearby Glenelg beach in 1966, lived at 109 Harding Street in Somerton Park.
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