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Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of the 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.
The council was established on 27 December 1855 when the Corporate Town of Port Adelaide was proclaimed as a new municipality centred on the township of the port of Adelaide, which had been opened some years prior in 1837. [2]
Extending from the River Torrens to Outer Harbor, and covering an area of approximately 97 km 2, Port Adelaide Enfield contains some of South Australia's finest historical buildings and landmarks. The Port Adelaide area is known as the History Precinct, as it is home to the Maritime Museum, the National Railway Museum and the Aviation Museum.
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After the death in 1916 of Hugh Garland, a prominent Port Adelaide trade unionist and founder of the Daily Herald, a committee was formed by the local branch of the Australian Labor Party and representatives of the United Trades and Labour Council to organise for the creation of a memorial to honour the contribution of labour activists in the Port.
The Corporate Town of Port Adelaide was established in 1855, the first local government body on Lefevre Peninsula. Seated at Port Adelaide it was joined on the immediate south by the District Council of Portland Estate in 1859, a local government seated at the Portland Estate township which is now part of the modern locality of Port Adelaide ...
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2004: Port Adelaide Football Club wins the AFL Grand Final. 2005: Adelaide Airport's new Termian 1 terminal is opened. Port River Expressway opened. 2007: World Police and Fire Games held in Adelaide. Adelaide–Glenelg tram service is extended to North Terrace (City West). 2008: Record breaking heat wave set in March.