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  Adelaide Park Lands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Adelaide Park Lands (commonly Adelaide Parklands) are the parklands that surround the City of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
Adelaide, from its earliest, was a planned city, designed to incorporate only the good of cities prior and to set the standards for cities following.
Light chose for Adelaide a site next to the River Torrens and planned the city of Adelaide on a grid south of the river, while the residential enclave of North Adelaide was set north of the Torrens, separated from the central business district on a gentle hill overlooking the city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adelaide_Parklands   (495 words)

  
 Walkabout - Adelaide
Adelaide was originally a 'farinaceous village' meaning that it originally was the centre of a successful wheat growing area.
Adelaide Gaol was used for the confinement of prisoners as recently as February, 1988.
Notable in the gaol is the original bell which dates from 1837 (it was made in 1837 and arrived in Adelaide in 1841), the graves area where all inmates hanged at the gaol are buried, and the unusual carved faces at the entrance.
www.walkabout.com.au /locations/SAAdelaide.shtml   (3382 words)

  
 WikiMiki.net - Adelaide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Adelaide was established as the centre of a planned colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution and as such does not share the convict history of other Australian cities, like Sydney and Hobart.
Adelaide is connected to Port Wakefield Road and the Sturt Highway in the north, and the South Eastern Freeway in the South East.
Adelaide is the midpoint of the Indian Pacific railway between Perth and Sydney, as well as the terminus of The Overland to Melbourne and The Ghan via Alice Springs to Darwin.
adelaide.en.wikimiki.net   (11190 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia, the driest state in the driest country in the world.
Adelaide is the only city in the world completely surrounded by parklands, with a broad band of greenery a half kilometre wide encircling the centre and North Adelaide.
Adelaide is one of those rare places where they have taken the best produce and processes from all over the world and managed to improve on them and has now started exporting them back to the experts.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A701588   (987 words)

  
 Official tourism web site for Adelaide Tourism Region, South Australia
Adelaide is an elegant city that has preserved its heritage and links with the past and offers a wealth of tourism experiences that are readily accessible from the city.
Adelaide is superbly equipped to provide a focus for the 'good living' tourism experience with which the state is so closely associated.
Adelaide is the perfect place for visitors to be introduced to the rich culture and history of the Australian Aboriginal.
www.adelaide.southaustralia.com /experience.asp   (365 words)

  
 ADELAIDE AUSTRALIA
Adelaide was established as the centre of a planned colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution, and does not share the convict settlement history of other Australian cities like Sydney and Hobart.
Adelaide had also become economically self-sufficient during this period but at heavy cost: the colony was heavily in debt and relied on bail-outs from London to stay afloat.
Adelaide is located north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges.
www.solarnavigator.net /geography/adelaide.htm   (3227 words)

  
 Adelaide Convention Centre
The Adelaide Convention Centre is located in the CBD of Adelaide, adjacent to the picturesque River Torrens and parklands.
Adelaide is a compact city of approximately 1.2 million people, situated between the beautiful Adelaide Hills and the long white beaches of the Gulf of St Vincent.
Adelaide is known for its biennial Arts Festival, its many churches and graceful stone buildings and its location within an hour's drive of some of Australia's most famous and beautiful wine producing regions.
www.adelaidecc.com.au /adelaide.cfm   (813 words)

  
 Adelaide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adelaide's early history was wrought by economic uncertainty and incompetent leadership.
Adelaide's first hospital was the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), founded in 1840, it is one of the major hospitals in Adelaide and is a teaching hospital of the University of Adelaide.
Adelaide has one freeway, the South Eastern Freeway, connecting the city with the Adelaide Hills, and two expressways; the Port River Expressway connecting Port Adelaide and Outer Harbour to interstate routes and the Southern Expressway, an interchangeable one-way road connecting the southern suburbs with the city proper.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adelaide   (5037 words)

  
 De's Adelaide South Australia
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia.
When Adelaide was hosting the Formula 1 Grand Prix it was raced through the city streets and parklands.
Adelaide is re-known for it's wine districts - to the North of
users.1st.net /dizz/Adelaide.htm   (373 words)

  
 City of Austin - Austin Sister Cities: Adelaide
Adelaide ranks as one of Australia's most attractive cities and one of the best planned in the world.
Adelaide is one of the growth markets of Asia.
Adelaide's distinction as a performing and visual arts center provides one of the prominent common ties between it and its U.S. Sister City of Austin, Texas.
www.ci.austin.tx.us /siscity/adelaide_2.htm   (377 words)

  
 Adelaide Park Lands Symposium: The balancing act: past - present - future
The Adelaide Parklands, an intentional element in the City of Adelaide Plan (1837), survive as a defining feature of the present-day city.
Over the years, sections of the Parklands have been alienated for a range of uses, reducing their original size and breaking the encircling ring with incursions such as roads and railway tracks.
With the passage of the Bill, the Adelaide Parklands are on the brink of a new era.
www.unisa.edu.au /hawkecentre/events/2006events/Parklands_General.asp   (464 words)

  
 Adelaide International Horse Trials 2005
Adelaide is Australia 's most accessible city - the Mt Lofty Ranges and pristine city beaches lie only 20 minutes from the CBD and our world-renowned wine regions are only an hour away.
The inaugural "Adelaide" horse trials was staged at Victoria Park and the East Parklands in November 1997 at CCI*** level and was upgraded to the highest level- CCI**** in 1999, making it one of only four such events held annually in the world and the only such event to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Adelaide International Horse Trials is unique in being held in the centre of a busy CBD which brings world class competition right into the heart of the city.
www.adelaidehorsetrials.com.au /general_information.html   (1271 words)

  
 Adelaide Hotels.
Grand Chancellor Hotel is in the heart of Adelaide, just a short walk to the shopping and dining precincts of Adelaide's East End (Rundle Mall and Rundle St), as well as the nightlife of Adelaide's West End and Hindley Street.
Rydges South Park is located on the corner of South and West Terrace, next to Southern parklands, with views of Adelaide Hills.
Adelaide is also a gateway to the famous wine region - Barossa Valley.
www.adelaideeguide.com /hotel.php   (445 words)

  
 Postcards - Previous Feature: Adelaide's Parklands...behind the pretty face with Keith Conlon
As Adelaide's designer, he marked the parklands all round the city and North Adelaide grids for the 'healthful recreation' of it citizens.
Adelaide's parklands are by no means frozen in time.
In Autumn, the formal entrance to the garden is graced with a glorious flush of pink rosesŠ..the relatively new City of Adelaide variety.
www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/parklands.html   (929 words)

  
 Adelaide Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Adelaide is situated on the southern Australian coast nestled on the edge of the River Torrens between the Adelaide Hills and Gulf St. Vincent.
Adelaide is one of the most picturesque and stylish cities in the country.
Adelaide is a small city in area but has all of the modern conveniences one would expect.
www.adelaidespot.com.au   (907 words)

  
 Postcards - Previous Feature: The Parklands - Secrets and Shifts with Keith Conlon
The courses in the north parklands, with their city skyline as a backdrop, began in the 1890's.
Adelaide was the "stench capital of Australia" before the pioneering deep drainage went in during the 1880's.
When the line was closed, the Adelaide City Council grabbed the strip to add to Elder park, to gain a little bit of Parklands back.
www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/parkland_host.html   (1094 words)

  
 Adelaide Parklands
This park, with its expanse of brilliant green grass and towering exotic and native trees, is a favourite with the locals.
In addition to the Botanic Gardens on one side there is the Adelaide Zoological Gardens on the other side.
Near where we parked are the added attractions of the Adelaide International Rose Garden and the Bicentennial Conservatory.
www.trevorstravels.com /adelaide-parklands   (214 words)

  
 Help save the Adelaide Parklands
The Parklands is one of Adelaide's greatest assets.
The Parklands are continually under threat by people and groups who consider it as cheap development land.
HAVING generously been given access to the Parklands in the first place, sports clubs are forever trying to cement their claims.
www.gdp-research.com.au /parks_1.htm   (736 words)

  
 Adelaide Hockey Club : Home
We are a district club serving the Adelaide area, operating from our facilities at the edge of the parklands.
The Adelaide Hockey Club is one of the largest and most successful hockey Clubs in South Australia with over 300 members playing both the Junior and Senior competitiion.
The Adelaide Hockey Club has enjoyed great success over the years with many premierships in Junior and Senior ranks, and consistently has many of our players in State Representative teams and on several occasions had players represent Australia.
www.adelaidehc.net.au   (282 words)

  
 Discover ~ South Australia
Held in Adelaide's eastern parklands, the event includes dressage, cross country and show jumping - all complemented by a great picnic atmosphere and food and wine stalls.
Feast is Adelaide's lesbian and gay cultural festival, established in 1997 as a multi art-form cultural festival, which has quickly become a major Australian cultural festival and one of the top three gay and lesbian events in Australia.
Adelaide is world renowned as the arts capital of the Southern Hemisphere and Feast takes the best from this festival tradition giving it a twist for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
www.southoz.com /events   (507 words)

  
 Wednesday, 10 May 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
I have visited the Adelaide Women's Prison, and the honourable member is correct in saying that there was a fire in 2004, I think she said it was, but obviously that area has been redeveloped.
In response to government policy relating to Adelaide's metropolitan open space system and `a greener city', the One Million Trees Program was officially launched in 2003 with a target of one million local native plants to be established by 2007.
In response I replied that we were waiting for a charter from the Adelaide City Council which is necessary for the establishment of the board.
www.parliament.sa.gov.au /catalog/hansard/2006/lc/wh100506.lc.htm   (11860 words)

  
 South Australian holidays, travel and tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Twenty-nine parks form a green belt around Adelaide, adding to the feel of grace and spaciousness sought by the city's 1800s architect Colonel William Light.
This is one of Adelaide's best-loved parks, and a sensational venue for Adelaide's annual international music festival WOMADelaide.
You'll discover a conservatory, a statue of Pan by Adelaide sculptor John Dowie, and grassy mounds covered by groves of trees and shrubs.
www.southaustralia.com /product.asp?product_id=9002771   (738 words)

  
 Accommodation in Adelaide
Please be aware that the assessment criteria for RAA classifications differs for hotels, motels, guest houses, self-contained units and bed and breakfast homestays.
A Postgraduate College associated with the University of Adelaide, across the park lands in North Adelaide.
Bishop's Courtyard, North Adelaide SA 5006, ph 08-82721355, fax 08-82726261.
www.physics.adelaide.edu.au /itp/accommodation.html   (2618 words)

  
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Kenneth William George Farmer was born in Adelaide on 25 July 1910.
parklands asked him to join them and he discovered that he was able to mark the ball well — so much so that he ended up by himself at one end !
On the 9th November, 1980 the new Ken Farmer Gates on the eastern side of Prospect Oval were opened by the Mayor of Prospect in the presence of Ken and a number of his team mates.
www.nafc.com.au /about/icons.asp   (1846 words)

  
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Adelaide Zoo is situated just a few minutes walk from the centre of Adelaide.
A visit to Elder Park, off King William Road near the Adelaide Festival Theatre, allows you to take a 35 minute cruise on the launch Popeye from the Elder Park landing to the Zoo.
Most parking is Adelaide City Council metered parking with up to four hours, Hackney Road is roadside parking, Plane Tree Drive is Adelaide Garden metered parking for up to four hours.
www.adelaidezoo.com.au /planningyourvisit.php?id=1080   (299 words)

  
 Discover Adelaide Card: Attractions: Adelaide Zoo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Nestled between the picturesque North Adelaide parklands and the River Torrens, the Adelaide Zoo is only a few minutes walk from the city centre.
The Adelaide Zoo exhibits over 1400 exotic and native mammals, birds, reptiles and fish and is considered one of the most modern zoos in Australia.
The Adelaide Zoo is Australia's second oldest at well over 100 years.
www.adelaidecard.com.au /3.html   (159 words)

  
 Adelaide City Council - Major Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Adelaide Parklands Trail - Stage 1 and 2
The Adelaide Parklands Trail is to provide a shared use trail that connects the park lands and creates an iconic trail for South Australia.
The trail will increase visitation to the City and provide greater access to the park lands.
www.adelaidecitycouncil.com /apps/projects/default.asp   (99 words)

  
 Adelaide, South Australia - SA Shorts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
An elegant city, wrapped in a wide band of parklands, Adelaide is rich in great things to do - and all without travelling for miles.
Having the sunset in the west means Adelaide's beachside pubs, cafés and restaurants have extra nice sunset views.
Port Adelaide's sea air and historic buildings make for a heady atmosphere of colonial yesteryear, but the South Australian Maritime Museum truly completes the picture, with displays, exhibitions and a lighthouse tour.
www.shorts.com.au /Adelaide   (633 words)

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