Brooklyn Park, South Australia
| Brooklyn Park Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||
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 Block of 1970s flats at the corner of Marion and Henley Beach Roads | |||||||||||||
  Brooklyn Park | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°55′44″S 138°32′38″E / 34.929°S 138.544°ECoordinates: 34°55′44″S 138°32′38″E / 34.929°S 138.544°E | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5032 | ||||||||||||
| Location | 6 km (4 mi) west of Adelaide city centre | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of West Torrens | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | West Torrens | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Hindmarsh | ||||||||||||
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Brooklyn Park is a western suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
Lockleys Post Office opened on 1 September 1904 and was renamed Brooklyn Park in 1967.[1]
Brooklyn Park now includes a subdivision that was originally named Bismarck and changed by the nomenclature committee to Weeroopa in 1918.[2][3]
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- ↑ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ↑ "NOMENCLATURE ACT, 1917. Change of Place Names" (PDF), The South Australian Government Gazette, 10 January 1918, p. 37 (PDF page 5), retrieved 28 April 2016 – via AustLII
- ↑ "Placename Details: Weeroopa". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 19 September 2007. SA0032673. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
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