Sellicks Beach, South Australia
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Southern Adelaide | ||||||||||||
| City | Adelaide | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1925 (sub-division) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 2,705 (SAL 2021) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+10:30 (ACDT) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5174 | ||||||||||||
| County | Adelaide | ||||||||||||
| Mean max temp | 19.4 °C (66.9 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Mean min temp | 7.5 °C (45.5 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 756.3 mm (29.78 in) | ||||||||||||
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Sellicks Beach, formerly spelt Sellick's Beach, is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located within Adelaide metropolitan area about 47 kilometres (29 mi) from the Adelaide city centre. It is an outer southern suburb of Adelaide and is located in the local government area of the City of Onkaparinga at the southern boundary of the metropolitan area. It is known as Witawali or Witawodli by the traditional owners, the Kaurna people, and is of significance as being the site of a freshwater spring said to be created by the tears of Tjilbruke, the creator being.
The beach lies within Aldinga Bay. The suburb consists of land bounded in the north by Button Road, in the east by the Main South Road, to the south by the boundary of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Willunga and to the west by the coastline with Aldinga Bay. The 2016 Australian census reported that Sellicks Beach had 2,616 people living within its boundaries.