Accommodation Adelaide

Accommodation Adelaide

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Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the consort of King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for the only freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens in an area traditionally inhabited by the Kaurna aboriginal peoples. Light's design set out Adelaide in a grid layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares, and entirely surrounded by parkland. Early Adelaide was shaped by religious freedom and a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties, which led to world-first reforms. Today Adelaide is known for its many festivals as well as for its wine, arts and sports.

As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the cultural boulevard of North Terrace, King William Street and in various districts of the metropolitan area.

Adelaide is a planned city, designed by the first surveyor-general of South Australia, Colonel William Light. His plan, now known as Light's Vision, arranged Adelaide in a grid, with five squares in the inner City of Adelaide and a ring of parks known as the Adelaide Parklands surrounding it. Light's design was initially unpopular with the early settlers, as well as South Australia's first Governor, John Hindmarsh. Light persisted with his design against this initial opposition. The benefits of Light's design are numerous; Adelaide has had wide multi-lane roads from its beginning, an easily-navigable grid layout and a beautiful green ring around the city centre. There are two sets of 'ring roads' in Adelaide that have resulted from the original design. The inner ring route borders the parklands and the outer route completely bypasses the inner city through (in clockwise order) Grand Junction Road, Hampstead Road, Ascot Avenue, Portrush Road, Cross Road and South Road.

Adelaide is located north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges. The city stretches 20 km from the coast to the foothills, and 90 km (56 mi) from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Adelaide Metropolitan Region has a total land area of 870 km2, and is at an average elevation of 50 metres above sea level. Mount Lofty is located east of the Adelaide metropolitan region in the Adelaide Hills at an elevation of 727 metres. It is the tallest point of the city and in the state south of Burra.

Much of Adelaide was bushland before British settlement, with some variation - swamps and marshlands were prevalent around the coast. However, much of the original vegetation has been cleared with what is left to be found in reserves such as the Cleland Conservation Park and Belair National Park. A number of creeks and rivers flow through the Adelaide region. The largest are the Torrens and Onkaparinga catchments. Adelaide relies on its many reservoirs for water supply, with Mount Bold Reservoir and Happy Valley Reservoir together supplying around 50 PER CENT of Adelaide's requirements.

The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia. It is located between the central business district and North Adelaide and has a history which dates back to the 1870s. It is considered to be one of the most picturesque Test cricket grounds in Australia, if not the world. The oval is managed by the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA). The current curator is Les Burdett. It has a current capacity of approximately 32,000 - 34,000 spectators.

The main sports played professionally in Adelaide are Australian rules football, soccer and cricket. Adelaide is the home of two Australian Football League teams: the Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power. A local Australian rules football league, the SANFL, is made up of nine teams from around Adelaide.

Adelaide's professional soccer team, Adelaide United, play in the A-League. Founded in 2003, their home ground is Hindmarsh Stadium, which has a capacity of 16,500 and is one of the few purpose-built soccer stadia in Australia.

The Adelaide 36ers and the Adelaide Lightning play in national basketball competitions, with home games at the Distinctive Homes Dome. The Adelaide Thunderbirds play in the trans-Tasman netball competition, with home games at ETSA Park. Most large sporting events take place at either AAMI Stadium or the historic Adelaide Oval, home of the Southern Redbacks cricket team. Adelaide hosts an international cricket test every summer, along with a number of One Day International cricket matches. Memorial Drive Park hosts the Adelaide International, a major men's tennis tournament in the lead-up to the Australian Open.

Adelaide hosts the Tour Down Under bicycle race, the largest cycling event outside Europe and the only with UCI ProTour status.

The Australian Grand Prix for Formula 1 racing was hosted by Adelaide from 1985 to 1995 on a street circuit in the city's eastern parklands. The Grand Prix became a source of pride and losing the event to Melbourne in a surprise announcement left a void that has since been filled with the highly successful Clipsal 500 for V8 Supercar racing, held on a modified version of the same street circuit. The Classic Adelaide, a rally of classic sporting vehicles, is also held in the city and its surrounds.

Adelaide Airport is the principal airport in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is located adjacent to West Beach approximately 8 kilometres from the city-centre. Although owned by the Commonwealth Government, it is operated independently by Adelaide Airport Limited.

Suburbs of Adelaide ;

Aberfoyle Park, Adelaide city centre Albert Park, Alberton, Aldinga Beach, Aldinga, Angle Park, Ascot Park, Ashford, Athelstone, Athol Park, Auldana, Banksia Park, Beaumont, Bedford Park, Belair, Bellevue Heights, Beulah Park, Birkenhead, Black Forest, Blackwood, Blair Athol, Blewitt Springs, Bowden, Brighton, Broadview, Brompton, Brooklyn Park, Brown Hill Creek, Burnside, Burton, Camden Park, Campbelltown, Castambul, Cavan, Chandlers Hill, Cheltenham, Cherry Gardens, Christie Downs, Christies Beach, Clapham, Clarence Gardens, Clarence Park, Clearview, Clovelly Park, College Park, Collinswood, Colonel Light Gardens, Coromandel East, Coromandel Valley, Cowandilla, Crafers, Craigburn Farm, Craigmore, Croydon Park, Cumberland Park, Darlington, Daw Park, Dernancourt, Devon Park, Dorset Vale, Dover Gardens, Dry Creek, Dudley Park, Dulwich, Eagle on the Hill, Eastwood, Eden Hills, Edinburgh, Edwardstown, Elizabeth Vale, Elizabeth, Enfield, Erindale, Ethelton, Evandale, Evanston, Everard Park, Exeter, Fairview Park, Felixstow, Ferryden Park, Findon, Firle, Fitzroy, Flagstaff Hill, Flinders Park, Forestville, Frewville, Fulham Gardens, Fulham, Fullarton, Gawler, Gepps Cross, Gilberton, Gillman, Glandore, Glanville, Glen Osmond, Glenalta, Glenelg East, Glenelg North, Glenelg South, Glenelg, Glengowrie, Glenside, Glenunga, Glynde, Golden Grove, Goodwood, Gould Creek,
Grange, Greenacres, Greenhill, Greenwith, Gulfview Heights, Hackham West, Hackham, Hackney, Hallett Cove, Hampstead Gardens, Happy Valley, Hawthorn, Hawthorndene, Hazelwood Park, Heathpool, Hectorville, Henley Beach South, Henley Beach, Highbury, Highgate, Hillbank, Hilton, Hindmarsh, Holden Hill, Hope Valley, Houghton, Hove, Huntfield Heights, Hyde Park, Ingle Farm, Inglewood, Ironbank, Joslin, Kensington Gardens, Kensington Park, Kensington, Kent Town, Keswick, Kidman Park, Kilburn, Kilkenny, Kings Park, Kingston Park, Kingswood, Klemzig, Kudla, Kurralta Park, Largs Bay, Largs North, Leabrook, Leawood Gardens, Linden Park, Lockleys, Lonsdale, Lower Mitcham, Lynton, Magill, Malvern, Mansfield Park, Marden, Marino, Marion, Marleston, Marryatville, Maslin Beach, Mawson Lakes, Maylands, McLaren Vale, Medindie Gardens, Medindie, Melrose Park, Mile End South, Mile End, Millswood, Mitcham, Mitchell Park, Moana, Modbury Heights, Modbury North, Modbury, Morphett Vale, Morphettville, Mount Osmond, Myrtle Bank, Nailsworth, Netherby, Netley, Newton, Noarlunga Centre, Noarlunga Downs, North Adelaide North Brighton, North Haven, North Plympton, Northfield, Northgate, Norwood, Novar Gardens, O'Halloran Hill, O'Sullivan Beach, Oakden, Oaklands Park, Old Noarlunga, Old Reynella, One Tree Hill, Onkaparinga Hills, Osborne, Outer Harbor, Ovingham, Para Hills West, Para Hills, Paracombe, Paradise, Parafield Gardens, Parafield, Paralowie, Park Holme, Parkside, Pasadena, Payneham South, Payneham, Pennington, Peterhead, Plympton Park, Plympton, Port Adelaide Port Noarlunga South, Port Noarlunga, Port Willunga, Prospect, Queenstown, Redwood Park, Regency Park, Renown Park, Reynella East, Reynella, Richmond, Ridgehaven, Ridleyton, Rose Park, Rosewater, Rosslyn Park, Rostrevor, Royston Park, St. Georges, St Kilda, St. Morris, St. Peters, Salisbury East, Salisbury, Seacliff Park, Seacliff, Seacombe Gardens, Seacombe Heights, Seaford Heights, Seaford Meadows, Seaford Rise, Seaford, Seaton, Seaview Downs, Sefton Park, Sellicks Hill, Semaphore South, Semaphore, Sheidow Park, Skye, Somerton Park, South Brighton, South Plympton, SpringfieLd, St. Marys, Stepney, Stonyfell, Sturt, Surrey Downs, Taperoo, Tatachilla, Tea Tree Gully, Tennyson, Teringie, Thebarton, Thorngate, Toorak Gardens, Torrens Park, Torrensville, Tranmere, Trinity Gardens, Trott Park, Tusmore, Uleybury, Underdale, Unley Park, Unley, Upper Hermitage, Upper Sturt, Urrbrae, Vale Park, Valley View, Vista, Walkerville, Walkley Heights, Warradale, Waterfall Gully, Waterloo Corner, Wattle Park, Wayville, West Beach, West Croydon, West Lakes, Westbourne Park, Willunga, Willunga South, Wingfield, Woodcroft, Woodville Gardens, Woodville North, Woodville South, Woodville West, Woodville, Wynn Vale, Yatala Vale.

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