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Adelaide

by Gabriel & Conrad

W h e r e i s A d e l a i d e ?

• Australia• 138,5 East• 34,5 South

• capitol of South Australia• next to the Great Australian Bight

W h e r e i s A d e l a i d e ?

In the east of the Gulf Saint Vincent

W h e r e i s A d e l a i d e ?

• across Adelaide goes the Torrens River

• 1.08 million inhabitans

• capitol of South Australia

• Australia‘s „most livable city“

• 700 hectares of park lands

• divided in grids

F A C T S

„t h e m o s t l i v a b l e c i t y“

• bordered by a belt of Park Lands where olive groves flourish beside towering gum trees, Adelaide is an easy, clean, affordable place to live.

• entering into strategies for environmental protection as part of Local Agenda 21, Council has set out to maintain a healthy city

H i s t o r y o f A d e l a i d e

• laid out in a series of neat, easy to follow, grids. Of course it was planned - even before it was settled.

• in 1829 Edward Gibbon Wakefield proposed a scheme for careful and systematic colonisation. The plan was to sell lots of Crown Land and to use the money to pay for the emigration of labourers.

• it finally became real (after two abortive attempts!) in 1834 when the South Australian Association was formed.

• it was soon after this that Wakefield quit the organisation arguing that the price of land was too low.

• still, in spite of these problems, a fleet of eight ships captained by John Hindmarsh left England and arrived at Holdfast Bay (now Glenelg) on 28 December 1836.

H i s t o r y o f A d e l a i d e

• Colonel William Light, the colony's first Surveyor-General, chose a suitable site for the future settlement.

• Light and Hindmarsh disagreed over the location of the site:Light was acused of building...

• the city away from the sea

• on an alluvial mud plain which was dusty in summer andmuddy in winter.

• he later replied to his critics: 'The reasons that led me to fix Adelaide where it is I do not expect to be generally understood or calmly judged of at the present. My enemies, however, by disputing their validity in every particular, have done me the good service of fixing the whole of the responsibility upon me. I am perfectly willing to bear it; and I leave it to posterity, and not to them, to decide whether I am entitled to praise or to blame.'

D e s i g n o f A d e l a i d e

• he (Colonel William Light) also designed the city along a clearly defined grid pattern with the two major centres - Adelaide Central and North Adelaide - surrounded by parklands.

• the effect was to be a city which looked like a square figure eight. The result, still evident today, is that Adelaide is carefully planned and neatly geometric.

C i t y - W a l k

1. HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

The State's oldest church, features a fully restored clock.

C i t y - W a l k2. JAM FACTORY CRAFT & DESIGN CENTRE

Superb South Australian design and manufacture: jewellery, furniture, ceramics and glass on exhibition and for sale.

C i t y - W a l k3. ADELLA GALLERY

Authentic aboriginal art and craft.

4. TATTERSALLS HOTEL Est. 1882Kelly's Heritage Bar-with original period decor.

C i t y - W a l k5. THE BEEHIVE CORNER

Adelaide's historic retail and social icon, now under-going restoration until September '98.

6. RENAISSANCE TOWER

C i t y - W a l k7. RUTHVEN MANSIONS

Adelaide's oldest apartment block, built in 1911.

8. SCOTS CHURCHBuilt in 1850.

C i t y - W a l k9. TANDANYA

Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Museum and Gallery.

10. AYERS HOUSEA stately house open to the public, formerly the home of Sir Henry & Lady Ayers (State Premier for 7 terms)

11. BOTANIC GARDENS

C i t y - W a l k12. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

13. ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY

14. ART GALLERY OF S.A

15. S.A. MUSEUM

C i t y - W a l k16. STATE LIBRARY OF S.A

17. MIGRATION MUSEUM

18. NATIONAL WAR MEMORIALIn 1919 the State Government decided that South Australia needed a memorial to commemorate the Victory of the Great War 1914-1918, and the supreme and personal sacrifice of those who participated in that war and the national effort involved in such activities. On 25 April 1931, before a crowd of almost 75,000, the memorial was unveiled

C i t y - W a l k19. GOVERNMENT HOUSE

The oldest part dates back to 1839.

20. FESTIVAL CENTRE

21. PARLIAMENT HOUSEThe first part, the western portion opened in 1889. The remainder was completed in 1939.

C i t y - W a l k21. OLD PARLIAMENT HOUSE

South Australia's original Parliament House.

22. ADELAIDE CASINO

in the Adelaide Railway Building built in 1928.

Adelaide's skyline is indeed picturesque, with the green of the City's many trees and renowned Park Lands melding with the architecture of the Festival Centre, the Adelaide Oval and other noted City

buildings.

Photos

Photos

located on King William Street, the Town Hall is an

icon of Adelaide's grand colonial

aspirations.

at day at night

Special Thank To

http://www.adelaidesecrets.com

http://www.adelaide.sa.gov.au

and many other pages

My uncle for the information

My mum for the photos

The correctors: Felix, Richard

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