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This category list articles on rivers in Adelaide, capital of South Australia. Pages in category "Rivers of Adelaide" The following 14 pages are in this category, out ...
The river in summer at base of the Adelaide Hills, Athelstone. At the time of European settlement the river was a summertime chain of waterholes bounded by large gum trees. Flowing through the area where the city of Adelaide is sited the river was sometimes invisible beneath its gravel stream bed.
The Onkaparinga River is the second major river within the Adelaide metropolitan area, after the River Torrens. It is a source of fresh water for Adelaide . Mount Bold Reservoir was constructed between 1932 and 1938 along a section of its path approximately 20 kilometres (12 miles) inland.
The Gawler River is a river located in the Adelaide Plains district of the Mid North region in the Australian state of South Australia. The district surrounding the river produces cereal crops and sheep for both meat and wool, as well as market gardens , almond orchards and vineyards.
Part of the Onkaparinga River catchment area that drains the western slopes of the Mount Lofty Ranges, [2] the creek rises in the foothills in the southern Adelaide suburbs around Chandlers Hill through to Trott Park, South Australia and reaches its confluence with the Field River near the Southern Expressway.
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 the eastern flank of the Lefevre Peninsula ...
The river descends 430 metres (1,410 ft) over its 88-kilometre (55 mi) course. [2] The largest town in the catchment area is Mount Barker. Other towns include Nairne and Kanmantoo. Towns on the Bremer River itself include Harrogate, Callington and Langhorne Creek, where the floodwaters are used to irrigate the local vineyards. [4]
Horner's Bridge, the first bridge to be constructed over the river in 1866, (photo taken 2007). The first inhabitants of the greater Adelaide area, the Kaurna people, referred to Sturt River as Warri Parri, or 'the windy place by the river'. [2] They used it as a movement corridor between the Adelaide Hills and the sea.