Adelaide
Adelaide (Kaurna: Tarndanya) is a city in Australia. It is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and it has an approximate population of 1.2 million people.
| Adelaide Tarndanya South Australia | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 From top to bottom:
| |||||||||
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 526: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/Australia" does not exist. | |||||||||
| Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 118: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°55′44.4″S 138°36′3.6″E / 34.929000°S 138.601000°ECoordinates: 34°55′44.4″S 138°36′3.6″E / 34.929000°S 138.601000°E | ||||||||
| Population | 1,324,279 (2016) (5th) | ||||||||
| • Density | 406.507/km2 (1,052.85/sq mi) (2011) | ||||||||
| Established | 28 December 1836 | ||||||||
| Area | 3,257.7 km2 (1,257.8 sq mi)[1] | ||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||
| Location | |||||||||
| |||||||||
It is the fifth biggest city in Australia, behind Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Adelaide was founded in 1836 by Colonel William Light, who named it after Queen Adelaide.
Adelaide is near the Southern Ocean and is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula. It has a river going through it called the River Torrens. Many festivals are held there. Adelaide has a hot-summer and cool-wet-winter Mediterranean climate. Grapes for wine production are grown in the Barossa Valley about 50 kilometres (30 miles) northeast of Adelaide, in the McLaren Vale about 30 kilometres south of Adelaide and parts of the Mt Lofty Ranges to the east.
Adelaide Media
Queen Adelaide, after whom the city was named
In July 1876, the Illustrated Sydney News published a special supplement that included an early aerial view of the City of Adelaide: (South) Adelaide (the CBD), River Torrens, and portion of North Adelaide from a point above Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide
North Terrace in 1841
The intersection of North Terrace and King William Street viewed from Parliament House, 1938
An aerial view of Adelaide in 1935, when it was Australia's third largest city. Of note is that only the eastern half of the new Parliament House (to left of station) had been completed.
Adelaide's eastern skyline during 2022 Australia Day celebrations
Adelaide's metropolitan area as seen by the ESA's Sentinel-2
The city centre was built on a grid plan, known as "Light's Vision".
.jpg)
References
- ↑ 2011 Census Community Profiles, Code 4GADE (GCCSA)Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- ↑ Great Circle Distance between ADELAIDE and MELBOURNE (March 2004)Geoscience Australia.
- ↑ Great Circle Distance between ADELAIDE and CANBERRA (March 2004)Geoscience Australia.
- ↑ Great Circle Distance between ADELAIDE and SYDNEY (March 2004)Geoscience Australia.
- ↑ Great Circle Distance between ADELAIDE and Brisbane (March 2004)Geoscience Australia.
- ↑ Great Circle Distance between ADELAIDE and Perth (March 2004)Geoscience Australia.
Other websites
Media related to Adelaide at Wikimedia Commons
This short article about a place or feature can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.