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36 unusual facts about Adelaide


1985 Australian Grand Prix

Jones also had the honor of having a section of track named after him, with the Rundle Road section of the track, a 350 metre straight between turns 9 and 10, renamed as the "Jones Straight" when the circuit was in use.

1989 Australian Grand Prix

Berger and Alliot then collided at the East Terrace bend, Berger taking out Alliot (though it was initially reported to be Mansell) and Derek Warwick spinning into the esses down the road (as seen by his onboard camera which showed Warwick lucky not to be hit by his own right front wheel after hitting the concrete wall).

Adelaide Park Lands

This area has largely been filled with cultural institutions along North Terrace, but further and additional areas have been alienated for railways, cemeteries, sporting facilities and other constructions.

Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou

In 1010 king Robert II of France along with Odo II, Count of Blois went to Rome to secure an annulment from Robert's second wife, Constance of Arles, Adelaide-Blanche's daughter by William I. Pope Sergius IV, a friend to the Angevin counts, upheld the marriage and additionally upheld Adelaide's struggle to maintain control of lands at Montmajour Abbey.

Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich

He appointed her abbess of the convent of St. Maria im Kapitol, Cologne, to succeed her sister Bertha, who died about 1000.

Aubrey Lewis

He was educated at Christian Brothers College, Adelaide, Wakefield Street, where he proved to be a gifted pupil.

Australian String Quartet

In addition, ASQ has an extensive regional touring programme throughout Australia (from small mining towns, to the Northern Territory's capital, Darwin) and appears at major international festivals in Adelaide, Sydney, and Austria.

Baron Partners

Baron Partners is an Australian corporate advisory firm, with offices in Sydney and Adelaide.

Bonython Hall

Bonython Hall is opposite Pulteney Street, the only one of the city's north-south thoroughfares which does not continue north through the parklands.

Burnside Symphony Orchestra

The Burnside Symphony Orchestra is a community orchestra based in the Burnside Council area in Adelaide, South Australia.

Cheltenham Park Racecourse

The racecourse was once served by Cheltenham Racecourse railway station on the Outer Harbor railway line.

Easter

(St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Adelaide).

Field River

The catchment area of the Field River includes the Happy Valley Reservoir, part of Main South Road and the Southern Expressway and covers a total area of 55.3 km2.

Glover Playgrounds

The playground on East Terrace was established in 1925 on the corner with Wakefield Street.

Hindmarsh Square

It is located in the centre of the north-eastern quarter of the city, and surrounds the intersection of Grenfell and Pulteney Streets, near the eastern end of the Rundle Mall.

Howard Florey

He was educated at Kyre College Preparatory School (Now Scotch College) and then St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he was a brilliant academic and junior sportsman.

Hugh Sheridan

Born in Adelaide, the second youngest of seven children, Sheridan grew up in the suburb of Millswood and completed his early years of schooling at Loreto College Marryatville before changing to Saint Ignatius' College and then in his senior years to University Senior College.

Hurtle Square

It is located in the centre of the south-eastern quarter of the city, and surrounds the intersection of Halifax and Pulteney Streets.

John Tyas

In Feb. 1868 he arrived in Adelaide, and joined as a partner the firm of Carter, Tyas, & Co., Manchester warehousemen.

John Walter Tyas (26 November 1833 – 18 December 1903) was a linguist, bibliophile and University of Adelaide registrar.

Ken Farmer

Kenneth William George "Ken" Farmer (born 25 July 1910 in Adelaide, South Australia – died 5 March 1982 in Adelaide) was an Australian rules football player in the South Australian National Football League during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

Michael Atchison

He was educated at Glenelg Primary, then King's College, a boy's school which later became the co-ed Pembroke.

Mitcham Primary School

Three years later the Mitcham Railway Station was opened next to the school on the new Adelaide-Aldgate line, creating with the school, a new centre of the Mitcham community.

Moses Aaron Richardson

He acted for some time as librarian of the Melbourne Mechanics' Institute, but eventually became a journalist and editor of the ‘Wallaroo Times.’ From 1874 he taught drawing and watercolour painting at Adelaide, where he died on 28 November 1877.

National Campus Band Competition

Since then, the National final has travelled around the country (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Lismore, Adelaide and Wollongong) and the competition has attracted more and more bands, as well as receiving great kudos from the music industry.

National Wine Centre of Australia

The Wine Centre is situated at the eastern end of North Terrace, Adelaide in the east parklands and adjacent to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

Osmond Gilles

He is remembered by Gilles Street in the Adelaide Central Business District, Glen Osmond Road, OG Road and the Adelaide suburbs of Glen Osmond and Gilles Plains.

Red-bellied black snake

It can be found in the urban forest, woodland, plains and bushland areas of the Blue Mountains, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Cairns and Adelaide.

Rising Sun Research

The privately held company was founded in April 2000 and is headquartered in Adelaide, Australia.

Southern Expressway

Originally proposed as 'Noarlunga Freeway', it was built as a corridor to relieve heavy traffic from the major arterial, Main South Road, in Adelaide's south.

St George College, South Australia

The senior school is located a short distance away, on the corner of Henley Beach Road and South Road, on the site of the former Thebarton Primary School.

Tanunda Liedertafel

The choir was re-organized in 1920 and, aside from an interruption caused by World War II has been active ever since, primarily in Tanunda and Adelaide.

Tjilbruke

This site is situated at Bedford Park within the grounds of Warriparinga Wetland and Sturt River.

Upper Hermitage, South Australia

Upper Hermitage's history revolves around agriculture and viticulture, as well as sand and freestone quarries, whose yields were used since early settlement days to build many South Australian public buildings, including the Adelaide Town Hall, General Post Office, Supreme Court and St Peter's Cathedral.

William Adey

He attended state primary schools before studying at Grote Street Training College in 1894 and at Melbourne Training College in 1907; he also studied part-time at the University of Adelaide (1909–15), although he never graduated.

William Lawrence Bragg

After beginning his studies at St Peter's College, Adelaide in 1904 he went to the University of Adelaide at age 14 to study mathematics, chemistry and physics, graduating in 1908.


1973 Australian Touring Car Championship

The night before Round 6 of the series at the Adelaide International Raceway, Moffat's GTHO Falcon was stolen from Stillwell Ford in the northern Adelaide suburb of Medindie.

1983 Australian Drivers' Championship

Port Macquarie privateer Andrew Miedecke drove his RT4 to 3rd in the championship despite only deciding to race after watching Costanzo win the first round of the series in Adelaide on television.

2008 Ordina Open

The men singles featured ATP No. 5, Valencia titlist and French Open quarterfinalist David Ferrer, Queen's Club quarterfinalist Richard Gasquet, and Australian Open quarterfinalist and Adelaide runner-up Jarkko Nieminen.

Adelaide Arena

Adelaide 36ers centre Daniel Johnson was named as starting centre for the South Stars team, while 36ers players Mitch Creek and Stephen Weigh were named as participants in the Slam Dunk competition and 3-Point Shootout respectively.

Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland

Fane was born at Curzon House, 8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, the second and youngest son of Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland and Lady Adelaide Ida, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe.

Archibald Watson

His portrait (by William Beckwith McInnes) hangs in the Adelaide University's anatomy department.

Arlo Bugeja

Arlo (Budgie) Bugeja (born 18 March 1986 in Humbug Scrub, Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian speedway rider.

Attunga

Attunga, Toorak Gardens, a mansion in the Adelaide suburb of Toorak Gardens, South Australia

Boak

Travis Boak, AFL footballer currently contracted to the Port Adelaide Power

Carl Crossin

In 2008, the recording of Symphony No. 4 "Star Chant" by Ross Edwards and Fred Watson with the Adelaide Chamber Singers under Crossin's direction won the prize for Vocal or Choral Work of the Year in the APRA Music Awards of 2008.

Cheong Liew

He then became the owner of the popular Adelaide restaurant Neddys, where the menu consisted of mostly Malaysian and Chinese dishes.

Chrysler Hemi-6 Engine

In a major coup for the company, Chrysler Australia's ad agency, the Young & Rubicam Advertising Agency in Adelaide, South Australia, secured the services of British racing driver Sterling Moss to promote the new Hemi-6 (245 cui) in 1969.

Cowell Area School

Cowell Area School is an R-12 Government Public school in Cowell, a small costal town 494 km away from Adelaide, South Australia in the District Council of Franklin Harbour district.

Edwin Thomas Smith

In the city council he was always anxious to improve the city and it was a result of his advocacy that Adelaide had its first tramways, King William Street was extended, and the Torrens Lake formed.

Eudunda

The overland road diverged at the Pound – one track went south toward Mount Barker and the other west to Narcoota, then on to Gawler Town and Adelaide.

Faizal Saari

He also played in the Adelaide League and made seven strikes for Forestville in three appearances.

Frances Adamson

Adamson was born in Adelaide, Australia, and educated at Walford Anglican School for Girls and The University of Adelaide, where she received a Bachelor of Economics.

Gavin Wanganeen

Since retiring from football, Wanganeen has focused on business interests involving ownership of three Anytime Fitness centres at Modbury, Port Adelaide and Essendon.

Gawler Central railway line

The line was constructed in 1857-58 to connect the Adelaide with copper resources at Kapunda and Burra, as well as to provide passenger and freight services to the new town of Gawler.

George Edward Fulton

Their homes were at Stanley Street, North Adelaide until 1888, then "Davaar" on the Hutt Street corner of South terrace (later owned by Sir Jenkin Coles, then from 1893 a residence in Brougham-place, North Adelaide, previously owned by E. M. Bagot.

Glynn Nicholas

He brought his act home to Adelaide, Australia and became renowned locally for the large crowds he entertained in the central shopping precinct, Rundle Mall, which had recently been closed to traffic.

Harness racing in Australia

The state's premier track is Globe Derby Park in Adelaide.

International Association of Wagner Societies

Wagner societies can be found in all parts of the world, including Venice, Great Britain, Shanghai, Tokyo, Lisbon, Melbourne, Adelaide, Ankara, New York, Toronto, Cape Town, Bangkok, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.

John Shirlow

He is represented at the British Museum, the national galleries of Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, and at Stockholm, Bendigo, Geelong and Castlemaine.

Jonathon Griffin

Griffin started well in the 2008 AFL season, with strong performances against very good ruck opponents in Will Minson and Ben Hudson, of the Western Bulldogs, Dean Cox and Mark Seaby of the West Coast Eagles and Dean Brogan and Brendon Lade of Port Adelaide.

Kylie Halliday

Kylie's home town of Adelaide, South Australia hosted the FISAF World Championships in 2004 where Kylie placed 2nd to Finland's Tiia Piili.

Lawrence A. Mysak

from the University of Adelaide in 1963 (where he was supervised by George Szekeres ) and his Ph.D., also in applied mathematics, from Harvard University in 1967.

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

Architektin, featuring Helen Morse, Ksenja Logos, Craig Behenna, Duncan Graham, Antje Guenther, Michael Habib and Nick Pelomis, produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and directed by Adam Cook, had its Opening Night on 2 September 2008 at the Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, South Australia.

Mark Dickel

Dickel's brother, Richard, is currently the head coach of the Adelaide Lighting and former Waikato Piston, Otago Nugget, Southland Shark, Southland Under 17, Under 19 and Under 21 coach.

Natalie von Bertouch

Natalie von Bertouch has an older sister, Laura von Bertouch, who formerly played with the Adelaide Thunderbirds and has been a member of the Australian national team.

Ong Keng Sen

He is particularly well known for his performance at the Perth Festival of King Lear in 1997, his Desdemona at the Adelaide Festival, Australia in 2000, and his Search:Hamlet at the Kronbourg Castle in Elsinore and Copenhagen.

Outer Harbor railway line

Weekday peak services run every 20-30 min, with the majority also running express between Adelaide and Woodville.

Parliament House, Adelaide

A design by prominent Adelaide architect Edmund Wright and his partner Lloyd Taylor was selected winner.

Pinnaroo, South Australia

The railway is not currently available for transport between the states, as the line from Tailem Bend was converted to standard gauge soon after the main Adelaide–Melbourne line was converted, but the line to Ouyen remains as broad gauge.

Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium

Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, Lady Moncada (Marie-Esméralda Adelaide Lilian Anna Léopoldine, born 30 September 1956, Laeken, Belgium) is a member of the Belgian Royal Family.

Rose Park

Rose Park, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Sarah Kernochan

Kernochan was born in New York City, the daughter of Adelaide (Chatfield-Taylor), an international organization consultant, and John Marshall Kernochan, a law professor.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Tallaght Hospital

Famous for its nursing school which was founded in 1859 by Miss Bramwell who had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, the Adelaide has been at the forefront of many medical advances.

The Boy James

Critical and public acclaim has led to the show being the longest running of Belt Up Theatre's repertoire, and was one of the two shows that were part of their international debut in the Adelaide Fringe Festival, in 2012 (alongside Outland).

Thorvald Solberg

Thorvald Solberg was married to Mary Adelaide Nourse of Lynn, Massachusetts.

West Adelaide Bearcats

West Adelaide also made Grand Final appearances in 1980 where they lost 88-113 to the St Kilda Saints in Launceston, and in 1983 where they lost 73-75 to the Phil Smyth led Canberra Cannons in Melbourne.

Westpac House

Being the tallest building in Adelaide, it was chosen as the venue for the stair race events at the 2007 World Police and Fire Games.

What Happened to Jean

Many members of Adelaide society also appeared, including South Australia's Premier Peake.

William Horn

Somewhat eccentric, in 1892 he was the donor of a copy of Antonio Canova's Venus, Adelaide's then controversial first public statue, which is still on display on North Terrace, Adelaide.

William Maturin

He and his brother Augustus arrived in Adelaide on the brig Elizabeth Buckham on 22 June 1843, and took the place of W. C. Darling in the Commisariat Department under administrator Sir Henry E. Fox Young, acting as his private secretary and holding the position of Deputy Assistant Commissary General and Auditor General, was promoted to Assistant Director in 1847, then Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor in 1851.

World Vegan Day

Vegan Festival in Adelaide celebrates World Vegan Day every year and takes place on Sunday in November.

Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory

It is bordered by Lake Burley Griffin to the north, Commonwealth Avenue and Capital Hill to the east, Adelaide Avenue and the Cotter Road to the south, and Scrivener Dam, Lady Denman Drive and part of the Molonglo River to the west.