Outer Harbor is a suburb in the Australian state of

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located at the northern tip of the

Lefevre Peninsula The Lefevre Peninsula is a peninsula located in the Australian state of South Australia located about northwest of the Adelaide city centre. It is a narrow sand spit of about running north from its connection to the mainland. The name given ...

about north-west of the

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Description

Outer Harbor is essentially an

industrial suburb An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban spr ...

, consisting mainly of shipping and transport related infrastructure. Administratively, it lies in the

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. It includes the headland of Pelican Point. It is bounded to the east by Osborne, the southwest by North Haven and in every other direction by the

Port River The Port River (officially known as the Port Adelaide River) is part of a tidal estuary located north of the Adelaide city centre in the Australian state of South Australia. It has been used as a shipping channel since the beginning of European ...

. Light Passage, named after founder of Adelaide Colonel

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, lies in the Port River between Pelican Point and

Torrens Island Torrens Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Adelaide metropolitan area in the Port River Estuary about northwest of the Adelaide city centre. Since European settlement of Adelaide in 1836, it has ...

Population

In the 12 people were recorded as residing in Outer Harbor and the adjoining part of the suburb of Osborne.

Transport

The primary form of public transport in Outer Harbor is the

Outer Harbor railway line The Outer Harbor railway line is a suburban branch line in Adelaide, South Australia. It runs from Adelaide station through the north western suburbs to Port Adelaide and Outer Harbor. It is 21.9 kilometres in length, and shares part of its ru ...

which connects the area to the centre of the

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. The terminus of this line is the Outer Harbor station, situated next to the North Haven Golf Course and Overseas Passenger Terminal. Until the 1970s Outer Harbor was a relatively isolated locality, separated from Largs Bay and

Taperoo Taperoo is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located on the LeFevre Peninsula in the west of Adelaide about north-west of the Adelaide city centre. Description Taperoo is adjacent to Osborne and Largs North. It is bounded ...

by several kilometres of sparsely occupied sand dunes and scrub. Apart from the railway, only a single loop road gave access to the port. Sections of that road presently bear four different names: Lady Gowrie Drive, Lady Ruthven Drive, Oliver Rodgers Road, and Victoria Road. Since the 1930s a singular feature of this road has been that it is bordered by an impressive avenue of Norfolk Pines. One bus route services the area, the 330, a loop service connecting with other bus services in neighbouring North Haven. Services are provided by

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History

Outer Harbor was established at the beginning of the 20th century, due to the increasing size of ships and the length of time it took to sail up the Port River to the inner harbour of Port Adelaide. The first ship to dock there was the RMS ''Oruba''. on 16 January 1908. The shipping channel leading to the Outer Harbor was dredged to a depth of 14.2m to accommodate Panamax-sized ships with the work being completed in February 2006. The Outer Harbor passenger terminal services an increasing number of cruise liners visiting Adelaide, with 27 arrivals in the 2012 cruise season. The Outer Harbor Post Office opened on 9 May 1910 and closed in 1973. Much of the extreme northern end of

leading to Outer Harbor remained sand dunes until a housing and marina development named North Haven commenced in the 1970s. As a result, the entire peninsula is now merged into a single conurbation. The historic former Outer Harbor Pilot Station is listed on the

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Governance

Outer Harbor is located in the federal division of Hindmarsh, the state electoral district of Port Adelaide and the local government area of the

Infrastructure and facilities

Outer Harbor contains the #6 container berth, the Overseas Passenger Terminal and the headquarters of the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron. It is serviced by the

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, a freight railway line which delivering goods to and from the shipping terminals.

Other

Some light

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aircraft preparing to land at Parafield Airport pass over or near Outer Harbor.Flight paths
, Appendix 1, 2004 Master Plan, Parafield Airport Limited. Retrieved 9 September 2009.

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External links

Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron.
{{Australian cruise terminals Suburbs of Adelaide Gulf St Vincent Lefevre Peninsula Ports and harbours of South Australia