West Adelaide

Glenelg is a beach-side suburb of the capital of . Located on the shore of in , it has become a tourist destination due to its beach and many attractions, home to several hotels and dozens of restaurants.
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  • Type: Suburb with 3,620 residents
  • Description: suburb of Adelaide, South Australia
  • Also known as: “Glenelg”, “Glenelg, South Australia”, and “Glenelg, South Australia, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Glenelg Oval and The Beachouse.

Stadium
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is a sports venue located on Brighton Road, . The ground is primarily used for Australian rules football and cricket and is the home ground for the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL competition.

Theme park
is a family entertainment complex located on the foreshore at Glenelg in , . The five-story complex also features a function room, The Function, Glenelg.

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is a historic site in , . Near this tree on 28 December 1836, the British governor John Hindmarsh delivered the proclamation announcing the establishment of Government of the colony of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Novar Gardens.

Suburb
is an inner south-western suburb of , , in the . Originally to be called Morphettville, the name was changed to honour the family estate of Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, Governor-General of Australia from 1914 to 1920, who visited the site of the future suburb in 1919.

West Adelaide

Latitude
-34.98037° or 34° 58′ 49″ south
Longitude
138.51433° or 138° 30′ 52″ east
Population
3,620
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
United Nations Location Code
AU GGG
Open location code
4QQW2G97+VP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5674778738
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2070830
Wiki­data ID
Q3108740
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Satellite Map

Discover West Adelaide from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“West Adelaide” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Glenelg”
  • Aragonese: “Glenelg”
  • Arpitan: “Glenelg”
  • Asturian: “Glenelg”
  • Basque: “Glenelg”
  • Bavarian: “Glenelg”
  • Breton: “Glenelg”
  • Catalan: “Glenelg”
  • Cebuano: “Glenelg”
  • Chinese: “己連拿奴”
  • Chinese: “格萊內爾格”
  • Corsican: “Glenelg”
  • Croatian: “Glenelg”
  • Czech: “Glenelg”
  • Danish: “Glenelg”
  • Dutch: “Glenelg”
  • Esperanto: “Glenelg”
  • Estonian: “Glenelg”
  • Finnish: “Glenelg”
  • French: “Glenelg”
  • Friulian: “Glenelg”
  • Galician: “Glenelg”
  • German: “Glenelg”
  • Greek: “Γκλενέλγκ”
  • Hungarian: “Glenelg”
  • Icelandic: “Glenelg”
  • Ido: “Glenelg”
  • Indonesian: “Glenelg”
  • Interlingua: “Glenelg”
  • Interlingue: “Glenelg”
  • Irish: “Glenelg”
  • Italian: “Glenelg”
  • Japanese: “グレネルグ”
  • Kongo: “Glenelg”
  • Latvian: “Glenelga”
  • Ligurian: “Glenelg”
  • Limburgan: “Glenelg”
  • Low German: “Glenelg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Glenelg”
  • Macedonian: “Гленелг”
  • Malagasy: “Glenelg”
  • Malay: “Glenelg”
  • Minangkabau: “Glenelg”
  • Narom: “Glenelg”
  • Neapolitan: “Glenelg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Glenelg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glenelg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Glenelg”
  • Persian: “گلنلگ، استرالیای جنوبی”
  • Picard: “Glenelg”
  • Piemontese: “Glenelg”
  • Polish: “Glenelg”
  • Portuguese: “Glenelg”
  • Romanian: “Glenelg”
  • Romansh: “Glenelg”
  • Russian: “Гленелг”
  • Russian: “Гленельг”
  • Sardinian: “Glenelg”
  • Scots: “Glenelg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Glenelg”
  • Serbian: “Glenelg”
  • Sicilian: “Glenelg”
  • Slovak: “Glenelg”
  • Slovenian: “Glenelg, Južna Avstralija”
  • Spanish: “Glenelg”
  • Swahili: “Glenelg”
  • Swedish: “Glenelg”
  • Swiss German: “Glenelg”
  • Urdu: “گلینلگ, جنوبی آسٹریلیا”
  • Venetian: “Glenelg”
  • Vietnamese: “Glenelg”
  • Vlaams: “Glenelg”
  • Volapük: “Glenelg”
  • Walloon: “Glenelg”
  • Welsh: “Glenelg”
  • Wolof: “Glenelg”
  • Wu Chinese: “搿连乃尔 (南澳大利亚)”
  • Wu Chinese: “搿连乃尔（南澳大利亚）”
  • Wu Chinese: “搿连乃尔”
  • Zulu: “Glenelg”

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