Mystery of Australia’s ‘Somerton Man’ solved after 70 years

So who is Carl Webb?

According to Prof Abbott, Webb was born in 1905 in a suburb of Melbourne.

He was the youngest of six siblings and married Dorothy Robertson, known as Doff Webb. That's most likely what brought him to Adelaide, the professor said.

"We have evidence that he had separated from his wife, and that she had moved to South Australia. So possibly, he had come to track her down," he told the ABC.