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| Former names | Merrimac Oval, H & A Oval |
|---|---|
| Location | Dunlop Court,Mermaid Waters |
| Owner | Gold Coast City Council |
| Capacity | 6,500[1] |
| Surface | Grass |
| Opened | Unknown |
| Tenants | |
| Broadbeach Cats,NEAFL Gold Coast Suns Reserves,NEAFL Broadbeach-Robina Cricket Club | |
Kombumerri Park (knowncommercially asSubaru Oval) is a multi-sports venue inMermaid Waters, a suburb in theGold Coast,Australia. It includes anAustralian Rules Football andCricket ground.
Before British colonisation, a large area around Kombumerri Park was used as a cemetery by the residentKombumerri clan ofIndigenous Australians. The oldest known interment was conducted around 1,300 years ago and it was still being used as a ceremonial burial ground by Aboriginal people up til the 1880s. A major excavation of the site in the 1960s found the remains of least 200 people. These were repatriated to the local Aboriginal community and reburied at Kombumerri Park in the 1980s.[2]
It has been used by theNEAFL'sBroadbeach Australian Football Club team as their home game base. TheGold Coast Suns reserves side also occasionally uses the ground for home matches.
TheGeelong Cats senior side has used the ground for training in July 2017, with thousands of spectators coming along to watch them.
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