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AdelaideAdelaide is the capital city of the Australian state of South Australia. It is a coastal city on the Southern Ocean and was named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the consort of William IV of the United Kingdom. It is situated on the Fleurieu Peninsula overlooking the Gulf Saint Vincent, bordered by the low lying Mount Lofty Ranges to the east giving the suburbs a roughly north-south rectangular layout. The population is 1,072,585 (census 2001). In terms of population, it is the fifth largest of the Australian capital cities. {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" width="160px" class="toccolours" style="border-collapse:collapse; margin-left: 5px;" |+style="font-size:140%"|Adelaide South Australia |- | style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2 | {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" | colspan="2" | "United for the common good" |- |Nickname: |"The City of Churches" |- | bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2" | Sports clubs*Adelaide Crows (Australian Football League) *Adelaide Lightning (Women's National Basketball League) *Adelaide 36ers (National Basketball League (Australia)) *Adelaide Thunderbirds (National Netball League) *Adelaide United F.C. (A-League (Australia) soccer) *Port Adelaide Football Club (Australian Football League) *Southern Redbacks (Cricket) *Adelaide Oval (cricket and football stadium) ==Educational institutions== ''Main article: South Australia#Education'' The city is home to the University of South Australia, the University of Adelaide and the Flinders University, all respected research and teaching institutions. Also, leading US private university, Carnegie Mellon University , is to establish an Adelaide campus that will specialise in Information technology and government management, offering both Australian and US Academic degree . The institution is expected to attract students from across Australia and around the world, further enhancing Adelaide’s international recognition as a [http://www.adelaide.sa.gov.au/council/publications/Brochures/IAEC_Adelaide_brochure_web.pdf ‘City of Education’]. ==Transport== [[Image:Adelaide O Bahn guided busway.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Adelaide O-Bahn]]Adelaide has a comprehensive public transport system, which is managed by and known as the Adelaide Metro. The Adelaide Metro consists of an extensive contracted bus-system and of light-rail, which includes metropolitan railway, the historic Adelaide-Glenelg Tram and the unique Adelaide O-Bahn, a guided busway. While Adelaide’s rail-network does not suffer the chronic delays of its inter-state counterparts, it is comparatively under-developed; Adelaide is the only mainland capital with a non-electric network. Amid increasing criticism over the ailing and ever-dilapidated rail-system, the Government of South Australia is in the process of developing a [http://www.dtup.sa.gov.au/transport_plan/index.html State Transport Plan], expected to be released in late 2005. The plan will supposedly set out the framework for upgrading the public transport system. Conversely, Adelaide’s sole remaining tramway, from Victoria Square, Adelaide in the CBD to the historic beachside resort of Glenelg, South Australia, is under-going Australian dollar56 million upgrade in which new tram-cars will replace the H-type’s of 1929. Adelaide is the midpoint of the Indian Pacific railway between Perth, Western Australia and Sydney, as well as the terminus of the Overland to Melbourne and The Ghan via Alice Springs to Darwin, Northern Territory. Adelaide’s main terminus for intra and inter-state coach-liners is the Franklin Street Coach Terminal at Franklin and Bowen Streets in the city-centre. Beginning in 2005, the terminal is to undergo a complete $25 million reconstruction, in conjunction with the much larger $375 million former Balfours-site redevelopment – the end-product being a new multi-storey bus-station and various residential and commercial towers. [http://www.capcity.adelaide.sa.gov.au/html/program.html] The Adelaide International Airport, at West Beach, South Australia, is Adelaide's main airport. A new dual international/domestic terminal is to replace the outdated and long-serving domestic terminal at the end of 2005. The old terminal had been a subject of ridicule, being one of the only capital-city airports at which there were no aerobridges. However, with the opening of the new [http://www.aal.com.au/ state-of-the-art] facility, Adelaide will boast the newest and most efficient aviation terminal in Australia. ==Prominent Adelaideans== Notable Adelaideans include Alexander Downer (Australia current and longest-serving foreign minister), Mark Oliphant (physicist and Governors of the Australian states of South Australia), Nobel Prize winners William Henry Bragg, his son William Lawrence Bragg and Howard Florey (honoured for his role in making penicillin readily available), Andrew Thomas (astronaut), Lleyton Hewitt (former world number one tennis player), Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, and Trevor Chappell (past international cricket players). Adelaide was also home to pioneer Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson, Sir Donald Bradman also choose Adelaide for his home, and Australia's first female judge and first female Governor, Dame Roma Mitchell. Janine Haines, born in Tanunda in 1945 was the first female to lead an Australian political party (the Australian Democrats). Natasha Stott Despoja (born in Adelaide, 1969), was the youngest woman to enter Parliament of Australia and in 2001, was the youngest person in Australian history to lead an Australian political party (the Australian Democrats). Charles Kingston, son of the Adelaide surveyor George Strickland Kingston, was the Premier of South Australia from 1893-1899 and went on to be the Minister for Trade and Customs in the first Commonwealth Parliament. James Unaipon (1834-1908) and his son David Unaipon (1872-1967), commemorated on the Australian dollar, were both highly intellectual and spiritual men. David Unaipon, a scientist, writer, preacher and prolific inventor, became known as the Australian Leonardo; one of his greatest ideas improved the efficiency of the mechanical sheep-shears. Catherine Helen Spence, (1825-1910), was a suffragist, electoral reformer, prohibitionist, feminist and novelist. She pioneered the way for South Australia to become the second place in the world to grant women the right to vote (after New Zealand) and was the first female political candidate in Australia — standing for the Constitutional Conventions of the 1890s. Some of the world's finest wines are from Adelaide with Christopher Rawson Penfold and his wife Mary Penfold establishing Penfolds Winery in 1845. It now produces the famous Grange Hermitage. Prominent artists, bands, and musicians to hail from Adelaide include film directors Scott Hicks and Rolf de Heer, actors Anthony LaPaglia and Jonathan LaPaglia. The famous Robert Helpmann (1909-1986), while born in Mount Gambier, South Australia, is rumoured to have resided in the eastern suburb of Rose Park, South Australi during his career in Adelaide. World reknowned artist Hans Heysen lived in Hahndorf, South Australia in the Adelaide Hills and painted some of the most spectacular landscapes of South Australia. Musicians include Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham, The Mark of Cain, The Superjesus, Undertone, Guy Sebastian, Testeagles, and Snap to Zero. Of recent note are hip-hop outfit Hilltop Hoods, who have attained nationwide recognition. North Carolina pop pianist Ben Folds has been living in Adelaide since 1999. Although born in Melbourne, media mogul Rupert Murdoch ran his first newspaper in Adelaide. In 1952 he took over management from his father of the afternoon paper "The News", turned it into a success and went on to build his now far-reaching media empire News Corporation, which was, up until the end of 2004, headquartered in Adelaide. According to Murdoch, a receipient of the City Keys, Adelaide remains News Corporation's "spiritual home". ==Media== ===Print=== *''Adelaide Advertiser'' — local daily, (''News Corp.'') *''[http://www.messenger.net.au The Messenger]'' — community weekly, (''News Corp.'') *''The Australian'' — national daily, (''News Corp.'') *''Sunday Mail (Adelaide '' — local Sunday only, (''News Corp.'') *''The Australian '' — national weekender, (''News Corp.'') *''The Independent Weekly'' — local weekender, (''Independent'') *''[http://www.adelaidereview.com.au The Adelaide Review]'' — local fortnightly, (''Independent'') ===Television=== Adelaide is serviced by five major television stations, and one community station. *''Australian Broadcasting Corporation '' Adelaide — Government-owned, independently run broadcaster with news and drama focus. *''Special Broadcasting Service '' — part Government-owned, independently run multilingual broadcaster, with news and multicultural focus. *''Seven Network'' — commercial network. *''Nine Network'' — separately owned affiliate of national commercial network. *''Network Ten'' — commercial network. *''[http://www.c31.com.au/ C31]'' — community television. ===Radio=== Major FM and AM radio stations include: *FM 107.9 — [http://www.life.on.net/ Life FM] *FM 107.1 — [http://www.safm.com.au/ SA-FM] *FM 106.3 — [http://www9.sbs.com.au/radio/ SBS Radio] *FM 105.5 — Triple J [http://www.triplej.net.au/ Website] *FM 104.7 — Triple M [http://www.mymmm.com.au/index.php Website] *FM 103.9 — [http://www.abc.net.au/classic/ ABC Classic FM] *FM 102.3 — [http://www.mix1023.com.au Mix FM] *FM 101.5 — [http://www.radio.adelaide.edu.au/ Radio Adelaide] - community & student radio *FM 93.7 — [http://www.threedradio.com/ Three D Radio] - community radio *FM 92.7 — Fresh FM - youth community radio *FM 91.9 — [http://www.nova919.com.au/ Nova FM] (FM 99.1 for the Adelaide Foothills) *AM 1395 — [http://www.fiveaa.com.au/ 5AA] (talk-back) *AM 729 — ABC Radio National [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ Website] *AM 891 — 891 ABC Adelaide [http://www.abc.net.au/adelaide/ Website] ==Sister cities== Adelaide has several sister city. They are: *Austin, Texas, United States - 1983 *Christchurch, New Zealand - 1972 *George Town, Penang, Penang - 1973 *Himeji, Japan - 1982 ==See also== *List of Adelaide railway stations *List of Adelaide suburbs *List of Churches in Adelaide ==Further reading== *Kathryn Gargett; Susan Marsden, ''Adelaide: A Brief History''. Adelaide: State History Centre, History Trust of South Australia in association with Adelaide City Council, 1952. ISBN 0730801160 *Derek Whitelock et al, ''Adelaide : a sense of difference''. Melbourne: Arcadia, 2000. ISBN 0875606571 ==External links== *[http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/ City of Adelaide] *[http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/ SA Central] SA Government Portal **[http://www.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=57&area=2&path=4873,4913,4917&listMode=listLinks City highlights] **[http://www.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=57&area=2&path=4873,4913,4915&listMode=listLinks Metropolitan highlights] *[http://www.adelaidereview.com.au/archives/2004_07/issuesandopinion_story2.shtml A History of the Kingston plan of Adelaide] *[http://wikitravel.org/en/article/Adelaide Wikitravel: Adelaide] *[http://terraserver.com/imagery/image_gx.asp?cpx=138.6&cpy=-34.9&res=125&provider_id=340&t=pan Terraserver.com navigable satellite map of Adelaide] Adelaide Australian capital cities Cities in South Australia Coastal cities simple:AdelaideAdelaide==Naming conventions== Should this be moved to Adelaide, Australia and have Adelaide become a disambiguation page? Adelaide could refer to (1) the city in Australia, (2) the Queen, (3) whoever the Adelaide referred to in 951 is, or (4) more?? user:Chuq I'd say yes, if a page were to be written about the Queen. I know nothing about her. user:Kent ---- This should move to Adelaide seem as the Australian city is the most common use of the term and most links to 'Adelaide' go to the city. Which is compliant with Wikipedia convention. If no one objects I'll do that User:G-Man 23:12, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC) :It was me who originally moved Adelaide to Adelaide, Australia. I was a bit of a newbie at wikipedia at the time :P You're right, it should move back to Adelaide and have the existing Adelaide page move to a disambig page. --User:Chuq 23:37, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC) Done User:G-Man 23:46, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC) == User:LinkBot/suggestions/Adelaide == An User:LinkBot has some possible wiki link suggestions for the Adelaide article, and they have been placed on User:LinkBot/suggestions/Adelaide for your convenience. ''Tip:'' Some people find it helpful if these suggestions are shown on this talk page, rather than on another page. To do this, just add AdelaideAdelaide is the capital city of the Australian state of South Australia. It is a coastal city on the Southern Ocean. 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