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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.
By the 1940s the number of suburbs was becoming a problem, so the Port Adelaide Council moved to reduce the number of local district areas to 18, in 1945. The boundaries and names of the suburbs were further stabilised when postcodes were introduced to Australia in 1967.
Outer Harbor was established at the beginning of the 20th century, due to the increasing size of ships and the length of time it took to sail up the Port River to the inner harbour of Port Adelaide. The first ship to dock there was the RMS Oruba. on 16 January 1908. [6]
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.
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 ...
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The list was originally compiled as a resource for the construction of a semantic media wiki for Port Adelaide wiki, for discussion at the Adelaide Wikipedia Users Group meetup on 27 August 2014. The original concept of the semantic media wiki was launched at the Port Adelaide Library on 7 May 2015 , but progress on this project stalled and ...
The geography of South Australia incorporates the south central part of the continent of Australia. It is one of the six states of Australia . South Australia is bordered on the west by Western Australia , to the north by the Northern Territory , Queensland to the northeast, and both New South Wales and Victoria to the east.