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Snowdens Beach
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 settlement of South Australia in 1836, when Colonel Light selected the site to use as a port. Before colonisation, the Port River region and the estuary area were known as Yerta Bulti (or Yertabulti) by the Kaurna people, and used extensively as a source of food and plant materials to fashion artefacts used in daily life. The Port River dolphins are a popular tourist attraction. Geography The Port River is the western branch of the largest tidal estuary on the eastern side of Gulf St Vincent. The whole estuarine area, sometimes called the Port River estuary, includes Barker Inlet, Torrens Island, Garden Island, and to a greater or lesser extent touches the suburbs of St Kilda, Bolivar, Dry Creek, Port Adelaide, New Port, and (up th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide City Centre
Adelaide city centre () is the inner city locality of Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide local government area (which also includes North Adelaide and from the Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands around the whole city centre). The residential population was 18,202 in the , with a local worker population of 130,404. Adelaide city centre was planned in 1837 on a Greenfield land, greenfield site following a Grid plan, grid layout, with streets running at right angles to each other. It covers an area of and is surrounded by of park lands.The area of the park lands quoted is based, in the absence of an official boundary between the City and North Adelaide, on an east–west line past the front entrance of Adelaide Oval. Within the city are five parks: Victoria Square, Adelaide, Victoria Square in the exact centre and four other, smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel Light
William Light (27 April 1786 – 6 October 1839) was a British military officer and colonial administrator. He was the first Surveyor-General of the new British Province of South Australia, known for choosing the site of the colony's capital, Adelaide, and for designing the layout of its streets, six city squares, gardens and the figure-eight Adelaide Park Lands, in a plan later sometimes referred to as Light's Vision. Early life Light was born in Kuala Kedah, Kedah (now in Malaysia) on 27 April 1786, the eldest son of Francis Light, the founder and Superintendent of Penang, and Martinha (or Martina) Rozells, who was of Portuguese or French, and Siamese or Malay descent. He was thus legally classed as Eurasian, an ethnic designation which granted the designated a middle position between the natives and the Europeans. He was baptised on 31 December 1786, Georgetown, Penang. He lived in Penang until the age of six (1793), when he was sent to Theberton, a village in Suff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osborne, South Australia
Osborne 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 Osborne is bounded to the south by the suburb of Taperoo, South Australia, Taperoo, to the west by Gulf St Vincent and to the north west by the suburbs of North Haven, South Australia, North Haven and Outer Harbor, South Australia, Outer Harbor and to the east by the suburb of Torrens Island, South Australia, Torrens Island. History Osborne originally started as a Subdivision (land), private sub-division in Section 2015 in the Cadastral divisions of South Australia, cadastral unit of the Hundred of Port Adelaide. It was named after Captain R.W. Osborne (c.1834-1920). A portion was subsequently added to North Haven. The name was "formally submitted by the City of Port Adelaide at a council meeting held on 10 May 1945" and was formally adopted in 1951 by the Nomenclature Committee. Since 1951, its bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 to the north by Moldavia Walk and Solvay Road, to the south by Strathfield Terrace, and in the west and east by Gulf St Vincent and the Port River respectively. Taperoo is primarily a residential suburb, with a minor harbourside presence on the eastern side of the suburb. History Taperoo as a placename was in use by 1920 as a railway siding located "opposite the works of the now defunct Silicate Brick Company, between Outer Harbour and Glanville" was renamed as Taperoo. The name is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning "calm". Part of Taperoo is reported as being "formerly known as Silicate". The name was "formally submitted by the City of Port Adelaide at a council meeting held on 10 May 1945" and was formally adopted in 1951 by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 to the peninsula by the traditional owners of the area, the Kaurna people, was Mudlangga, meaning "nose-place" in the Kaurna language. Location and extent Lefevre Peninsula, with a population of approximately 30,000 residents, is located on the east coast of Gulf St Vincent about north-west of the Adelaide city centre. The peninsula is bounded to the west by Gulf St Vincent and to the north and the east by the Port River. The southern boundary of the “topographical peninsula” has been determined by the Surveyor General of South Australia as being Recreation Road in the suburb of Semaphore Park as “an examination of old plans indicate that boats could have navigated the Port Adelaide River to approximately this point”. Sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Port, South Australia
New Port is a north-western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. History In 2004, Premier of South Australia Mike Rann, announced the commencement of a major redevelopment of the Port Adelaide waterfront. With an estimated budget of $1.2 billion, the Newport Quays development was to include 2000 homes across six different precincts. At completion, the development was proposed to also include cafes, museums, public parks and various commercial properties. In 2007, the suburb of New Port was created from parts of the suburbs of Birkenhead, South Australia, Birkenhead, Ethelton, Glanville, South Australia, Glanville and Semaphore Park. The name "Newport Quays" had been requested but this was not supported by the relevant government authority. On 6 August 2009, the eastern boundary of the suburb was extended in part to the centre-line of the Port River. By 2007, stage one of Newport Quays was complete, with stage two construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide city centre, Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the city of Adelaide. Port Adelaide played an important role in the formative decades of Adelaide and South Australia, with the port being early Adelaide's main supply and information link to the rest of the world. Its Kaurna name, although not officially adopted as a dual naming, dual name, is Yertabulti. History Prior to European settlement of South Australia, European settlement Port Adelaide was covered with Avicennia marina, mangrove swamps and tidal mud flats, and lay next to a narrow creek. At this time, it was inhabited by the Kaurna people, who occupied the Adelaide Plains, the Barossa Valley, the western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, and northwards past Snowtown. The Kaurna people called the Port Adelaide ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dry Creek, South Australia
Dry Creek is a mostly industrial suburb north of Adelaide, containing significant wetlands. A substantial area was devoted to Sea salt, salt crystallisation pans until 2014, with plans to redevelop the site for housing. This housing plan, first put forward in 2008, was revived in 2013, for a proposed 10,000 homes. Salt production ceased in 2014, and in 2016 Ridley Corporation, which managed the salt pans, sold the land to Adelaide Resource Recovery. Description It is named for the Dry Creek (South Australia), Dry Creek, a stream and drain which flows through the suburb and into Swan Alley, a tidal distributary of Barker Inlet, Gulf St Vincent. It was the site of the soapworks of W. H. Burford & Sons from 1923 (adjacent to the Dry Creek railway station, and formerly used for smelting ore from Broken Hill) and a pioneering "garden suburb" for its employees, designed by W. J. Earle (who also laid out Cadbury's model town at Claremont, Tasmania). The name Burford Gardens has van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivar, South Australia
Bolivar is an outer northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Salisbury. History ''Bolivar'' was a barque built in 1826 in Monmouth by shipbuilder William Lambert. Measuring 108 feet 6 inches in length, 28 feet 2 inches in beam, and 19 feet 10 inches in depth, the vessel had a tonnage of 386, and was registered in London under the ownership of Fenwick. One of the notable voyages of ''Bolivar'' occurred in 1849-1850 under the command of Captain William Murray. The ship departed from London and Plymouth on Thursday, 4 October 1849, bound for Port Adelaide. After nearly four months at sea, ''Bolivar'' arrived at its destination on Monday, 28 January 1850. This journey was part of a series of voyages that connected the United Kingdom to Australia, facilitating the transportation of passengers and goods during the mid-19th century. ''Bolivar'' had previously completed other significant journeys, including a voyage to Hobart Town in 1846. Over its year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Kilda, South Australia
St Kilda is a coastal township, hamlet, now classed as a List of Adelaide suburbs, suburb, north-north-west of the centre of Adelaide, capital city of South Australia. With a population below 100 and a sole road connecting to the Port Wakefield Highway, nearest highway, its natural and built resources have remained relatively undisturbed. The seafront, containing a large area of mangroves, faces the Barker Inlet, which is part of the Port River estuarine area. St Kilda is an internationally recognised Birdwatching, bird-watching area: more than 100 speciesThe number of species noted in the reference is 100. On boardwalk signs the number () was stated as 200, and elsewhere as 150. of birds feed in and around the mudflats, salt lagoons, mangroves and seagrass beds. The inhabited section of the suburb occupies less than along the seafront. The remainder of the land was formerly used for extensive salt evaporation ponds, although now they are much fewer in number. The settlement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garden Island, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Garden Island is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Adelaide metropolitan area within the estuary of the Port Adelaide River about north-west of the Adelaide city centre. Its boundaries which were created in August 2009 include “the whole of the geographical feature of Garden Island” and parts of the following water bodies that adjoin the shoreline of the ‘geographic feature’ - Angas Inlet to the north, the North Arm to the south and Eastern Passage to the east. Garden Island is located within the federal division of Port Adelaide and the state electoral district of Port Adelaide Since at least 2009, Garden Island has not been located within a local government area. As of 2014, the majority of the land within the locality is zoned as "MFP" which refers to the Multifunction Polis, a proposed development with the Adelaide metropolitan area to create “an international and national centre for co-operative research and innova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torrens Island
Torrens Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Adelaide, Adelaide metropolitan area in the Port River Estuary about northwest of the Adelaide city centre. Since European settlement of Adelaide in 1836, it has been used for a number of purposes. Geographical features An island in the Port River Estuary between the Port River to the west and Barker Inlet to the east, Torrens Island is located about north-west of Adelaide. Light Passage, named after founder of Adelaide Colonel William Light, lies in the Port River between Pelican Point (Adelaide), Pelican Point and Torrens Island. Torrens Island is separated from the smaller Garden Island (South Australia), Garden Island to the south by the Angas Inlet, but is connected to the mainland by a causeway and a bridge over the North Arm (South Australia), North Arm. History European discovery and use According to the ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Governor George Gawler in 1837 na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
