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Pooraka
Pooraka is a suburb in Adelaide, South Australia. It is 12 kilometres north of the central business district. History Pooraka was originally a subdivision of section 97 of the Hundred of Yatala, the latter spanning from Grand Junction Road, at Gepps Cross, to a point north of Montague Road. It was originally known as Dry Creek after the local watercourse ( Dry Creek), which is now the name of a modern industrial locality west of Pooraka, at the creek's mouth (Dry Creek, South Australia). In 1916, the District Council of Yatala renamed the suburb Pooraka, which was believed to be an indigenous Kaurna word meaning 'dry', however, according to modern expert Robert Amery, the name bears no resemblance to the Kaurna words for 'dry' or 'creek'. The term has been identified as a New South Welsh indigenous name for the turpentine tree, which is not found in South Australia. Pooraka East Post Office opened on 1 December 1965 and closed in 1986. A railway station on the Northfield railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pooraka Railway Station
Pooraka railway station was located approximately 12.9 km by rail from Adelaide on the former long Northfield branch line that opened in June 1857. The station opened as Abattoirs railway station on 12 July 1913, when the adjacent Gepps Cross Abattoirs also opened. The station's livestock sidings extended for most of the of the line between Port Wakefield Road and the Gawler Road (later Main North Road Main North Road is the major north-south arterial route through the suburbs north of the Adelaide City Centre in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. It continues north through the settled areas of South Australia and is a total of long, fro ...). History The station's name was changed to Pooraka in 1940, matching the name of the then sparsely populated suburb nearby. Pooraka was a busy location, conducting livestock movements in and out of the adjacent abattoirs and sale yards. Pooraka closed as an attended station in October 1982 and closed to passenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingle Farm, South Australia
Ingle Farm is an established, residential suburb, with some parklands, of about 8,500 people in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. It is located at the base of the Mount Lofty Ranges foothills, around 12 kilometres north-east of Adelaide's central business district. It covers an area of 4.47 km2 with a population density of 19.41 people per hectare in 2001. History James Rowe arrived in South Australia 22 Apr 1837 on the "South Australian", spending two years on Kangaroo Island then settling with his family in the Ingle Farm area in 1848. They initially took up in section 3030, Hundred of Yatala in 1849, using the land primarily for farming wheat, barley, peas and hay. James Rowe's grandson, Jabez Sleeman Rowe (1871-1955),GenealogySA SA BDM https://www.genealogysa.org.au took on the farm and married Martha Barbara Wright (1868 - 1943), from Inglewood in 1902 consequently naming the farm Ingle Farm. In 1959, the South Australian Housing Trust purchased fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northfield Railway Line
The Northfield railway line (formerly Stockade railway line) was a railway in northern Adelaide running Dry Creek and Northfield. The line branched east from the Gawler railway line just north of Dry Creek station. In earlier years, it saw mixed freight including livestock in and meat out of the Gepps Cross abattoirs and sale yards. In its later years, it was operated as part of the metropolitan passenger rail network and served three stations: Cavan, Pooraka, and Northfield. History The Stockade line (originally terminating at Stockade railway station) was opened on 1 June 1857 at the same time as the Adelaide-Smithfield section of what is now the Gawler line, making it one of South Australia's oldest rail lines. It was built to carry stone from the quarries behind Yatala Labour Prison.A Brief History of the Dry Creek to Stockade Railway '' Catch Point'' issue 179 May 2007 pages 27–29 Originally intended only for a freight role, in the 19th century the line also catere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mawson Lakes, South Australia
Mawson Lakes is a residential suburb in the City of Salisbury, Adelaide, Australia. Named in honor of Sir Douglas Mawson, it has a census area population of 10,872 people. The suburb is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide around 12 km north of the Central business district. Much of the suburb was previously known as The Levels, and was a non-residential area, housing a campus of the University of South Australia and Technology Park Adelaide. History Technology Park Adelaide Technology Park Adelaide is Australia's first technology park, having been established in 1982 by the Government of South Australia. It is currently owned and managed by the Government of South Australia's Land Management Corporation. The Technology Park Adelaide is a site which allows any organisation with a technological focus to locate there. Over 90 organisations are located at the Park, with the majority of these organisations having a defence focus. The main types of organisati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dry Creek (South Australia)
Dry Creek or Dry Creek Drain is a seasonal stream in South AustraliaWhitworth (1866) p. 69 which passes through the Adelaide suburbs of Modbury, Walkley Heights and Pooraka. The nearby suburb of Dry Creek and Dry Creek railway station are named after the stream. Description In season Dry Creek flows from its source near Yatala Vale in the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Barker Inlet of the Gulf St Vincent via a manufactured drain near Globe Derby Park. The flooded state of the plain either side of Dry Creek after heavy rain is presumed to be the source of the local place name 'Yatala' (as in Hundred of Yatala and Yatala Vale). The name is likely derived from the indigenous word 'yertalla', which means "water running by the side of a river". Dry Creek is mostly dry in summer and flows through a deep gully at the rear of the prison with outcrops of exposed pre-Cambrian rocks that were extensively quarried as part of prison activity.Lewis (1985) pp. 174–175 Yatala Labour Priso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Makin
The Division of Makin is an electoral division for the Australian House of Representatives located in the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide. The 130 km² seat covers an area from Little Para River and Gould Creek in the north-east to Grand Junction Road in the south and Port Wakefield Road in the west, including the suburbs of Banksia Park, Fairview Park, Golden Grove, Greenwith, Gulfview Heights, Ingle Farm, Mawson Lakes, Modbury, Para Hills, Para Vista, Pooraka, Redwood Park, Ridgehaven, Salisbury East, Salisbury Heights, St Agnes, Surrey Downs, Tea Tree Gully, Valley View, Vista, Walkley Heights, Wynn Vale, Yatala Vale, and parts of Gepps Cross and Hope Valley. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, Traditional Owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people. The area of the city centre and surrounding parklands is called ' in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the city was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Florey
Florey is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after scientist Howard Florey, who was responsible for the development of penicillin. It is a suburban electorate in Adelaide's north-east, taking in the suburbs of Ingle Farm, Modbury North, Para Vista, Pooraka, Valley View, and Walkley Heights, as well as parts of Modbury and Northfield. Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a notionally safe Labor electorate, and was first contested at the 1970 election. Mostly it was safely held by the Labor party until the 1989 election when it became the minority Labor government's most marginal electorate. Florey was one of the first electorates to fall to the Liberals at the 1993 election landslide. It was regained by Labor's Frances Bedford at the 1997 election. 2018 election Incumbent Frances Bedford resigned from Labor and became an independent on 28 March 2017 after Labor's Jack Snelling won Florey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gepps Cross, South Australia
Gepps Cross (pronounced 'Jepps Cross') is a suburb and major road intersection in the north of Adelaide, South Australia. Gepps Cross is traditionally seen as the end of the inner suburbs and the start of the outer northern suburbs, as it was home to a major abattoir (now closed and demolished) with holding yards and other open space. It is the first significant open space encountered after the North Parklands. It retains the open nature, even with warehouses, a velodrome, hockey stadium, Adelaide Raiders – a Croatian soccer club, and karate training facilities. Gepps Cross is best known for the five-way intersection with Grand Junction Road going east and west, Main North Road south and north-east, and Port Wakefield Road going north. The intersection is not grade-separated. It is controlled by traffic lights, and all five roads have at least three lanes in each direction. These roads include the main highways from Adelaide to Western Australia and the Northern Territory (vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkley Heights, South Australia
Walkley Heights is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The suburb is located on land formerly comprising the prison farm for Yatala Labour Prison, and includes fifty-five hectares of land formerly owned by R. M. Williams which was compulsorily acquired during the time of former State Premier Sir Thomas Playford. The suburb (and one adjacent main road) is named after John Walkley, an early pioneer in South Australia The suburb had a population, in 2001, of only 713 increasing to 3,497 by 2016. Facilities A small shopping centre at the end of Homestead Avenue has a Drakes supermarket, a pizza shop, a bakery, a Salvation Army opportunity shop, a beauty salon and a doctor's surgery. Also there is a childcare centre and kindergarten. The South Australian Government has a large logistics and technical facility, used by several departments, in Wright Road at the western end of the suburb. Environment The suburb occupies 1.5 square kilometres of land either side of the Dry Cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parafield, South Australia
Parafield is a non-residential suburb of Adelaide approximately to north of the CBD. The suburb is essentially contiguous with Parafield Airport. There are airport related businesses in the terminal and hangar area of the airport, and a general commercial area in the corner of Kings and Main North Roads. It is bordered by Main North Road to the east, Kings Road to the north and the Gawler railway line to the west, where it is served by Parafield station. To the south it abuts Mawson Lakes and Elder Smith Drive at the boundary of the airport. Parafield Post Office opened on 1 July 1946, was renamed ''Parafield Airport'' in 1965 and closed in 1986. See also * List of Adelaide suburbs References Suburbs of Adelaide {{adelaide-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Para Hills West, South Australia
Para Hills West is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, and is within the City of Salisbury. It is on the eastern side of Main North Road, opposite Parafield Airport Parafield Airport is on the edge of the residential suburb of Parafield, South Australia, north of the Adelaide city centre and adjacent to the Mawson Lakes campus of the University of South Australia. It is Adelaide's second airport and the .... The other boundaries are McIntyre Road, Bridge Road and Maxwell Road. It has two schools, Para Hills West Primary School and Para Hills High School. References {{Adelaide-geo-stub Suburbs of Adelaide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
