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35 unusual facts about Adelaide


1954 Adelaide earthquake

Other major buildings severely damaged included the local church, St Francis Xavier Cathedral, the Adelaide Post Office clock tower and a newly completed hospital in Blackwood which sustained major damage in all its wards and offices (though an operating theatre survived).

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.

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.

Alexandra Hill

Hill was born in Grantham but grew up in Australia where she was educated at St Aloysius College, Adelaide.

Angas Street, Adelaide

The rear of St Aloysius College faces the street, and various courts are on the street, including the Dame Roma Mitchell Building.

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.

Barr Smith Library

The Barr Smith Library is the main library of the University of Adelaide, situated in the centre of the North Terrace campus.

Beaumont House

Bishop Short later founded St Peter's Cathedral, an Anglican church, in 1869.

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.

C. J. Dennis

His mother suffered ill health, so Clarrie (as he was known) was raised initially by his great-aunts, then went away to school, Christian Brothers College, Adelaide as a teenager.

Cheltenham Park Racecourse

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

Christopher Pearson

Although born in Sydney, he spent most of his life in Adelaide.

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He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from Flinders University as well as a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of 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.

George Margitich

Originally from South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club South Adelaide, Margitich debuted for Melbourne in 1930 and kicked 73 goals, a then club record for most goals in a season.

Glover Playgrounds

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

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Despite maps to the contrary he had no relationship with the West Terrace playground.

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.

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.

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.

Kilburn station

Kilburn railway station, Adelaide, a TransAdelaide station on the Gawler railway line

Laurence Schache

Schache played 17 games for Brisbane in 1991, winning the club's Leading Goalkicker award in his first season with 47 goals, including a best return of six goals against Adelaide in Round 14.

Lower North East Road, Adelaide

Lower North East Road or Payneham Road or A11 highway is a road connected to National Route A17 (Portrush Road) in South Australia.

Madeline Rees George

She held this post until 1908 when the school was merged into the Adelaide High School, and she was made headmistress of the new institution, in the same Grote Street premises.

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.

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.

Samuel James Mitchell

Samuel Mitchell graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1890 and was admitted to the Bar and practised with Paris Nesbit QC and later Robert Ingleby QC.

Southern Expressway

The expressway crosses over the Coast to Vines rail trail at both Panalatinga Road and at the expressway's Southern end.

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.

Torrens University Australia

The university is based in the Torrens Building, shared with Heinz College Australia (an international campus of Carnegie Mellon University) in Victoria Square, Adelaide.

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.

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.

Alan Finger

In 1949, after returning to Pennington in Adelaide, he married Jean Isobel Sams, née Marshall, a fellow divorcee, on 12 December.

Archibald Watson

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

Attunga

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

Bill McCann

McCann was born at Glanville in Adelaide to engine driver John Francis McCann and Eliza, née Francis.

Bridgewater, South Australia

It is the former end of the Adelaide-Bridgewater railway line; this route was closed in 1987.

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.

Cundall Johnston and Partners

Founded in Newcastle and Edinburgh, Cundall now has United Kingdom offices in London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester, with Australian offices in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide plus offices in Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus in Paphos and Nicosia, Madrid, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest in Romania.

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.

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.

Goodwood Road

Goodwood Road, Adelaide, a road to the south of Adelaide, South Australia

International Grape Genome Program

In the course of their research, the Cooperative Research Centre for Viticulture (CRCV), based at the CSIRO Plant Industry Horticulture Unit in Adelaide, Australia (one of the IGGP collaborating centres) discovered that white grapes only exist today as a result of a rare genetic mutation which took place thousands of years ago.

James Robin

In the London office of Robert Torrens in 1851, with fellow Guernsey citizens James Thoume and N. P. Le Bair, Charles took a lease on the Kent Town section of Adelaide, then known as "Dr. Kent's Section", with an option to convert to freehold.

Jan Matson

Originally from Adelaide, Jan began painting seriously while living in Alice Springs in the early 1980s where she won the Centralian Advocate Art Award.

John Bonython

John Lavington Bonython (1875–1960), Australian publisher and Lord Mayor of Adelaide, son of Langdon Bonython, aka Lavington Bonython

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.

Kevin Scarce

Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1952, Scarce spent his early childhood in Woomera and attended Elizabeth East Primary School and Elizabeth High School.

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.

Loxton, South Australia

Grantley Fielke (b. 1962), former Australian rules footballer who played for West Adelaide in the SANFL and for both Collingwood and the Adelaide Crows in the VFL-AFL between 1979 and 1997.

Mark Coleridge

The third of five siblings born to Bernard and Marjorie (née Harvey) Coleridge, Mark Coleridge was educated at Saint Joseph's School, Tranmere, South Australia, Rostrevor College, Adelaide, and at St Kevin's College, Toorak.

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.

Martin McKinnon

He twice received the maximum three Brownlow votes while with Adelaide, for 23 disposals in a win over reigning premiers Essendon in 1994 and for 25 disposals against St Kilda for which he received an AFL Rising Star nomination in 1995.

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.

Norwood Oval

The original Australian Baseball League (ABL) started in 1989 with Adelaide represented by the Adelaide Giants.

Oliba Cabreta

He also had a legitimate daughter named Adelaide, who married John d'Oriol, lord of Sales.

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.

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.

Rebecca Bulley

In the 2008 ANZ Championship, Bulley became one of the main defenders in the Swifts line up along with Kimberly Purcell and Selina Gilsenan after Liz Ellis (retired in 2007) and Mo'onia Gerrard (played for Adelaide Thunderbirds) left the Swifts.

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.

Riverton, South Australia

A passenger who was travelling on the Broken Hill Express from Adelaide fired a number of shots into the dining room, and Percy Brookfield, the Member of Parliament for Broken Hill, was shot and killed when he tried to disarm the gunman.

Rose Park

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

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.

Thorvald Solberg

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

Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge

The bridge was the subject of a successful community campaign, spearheaded by the local RSL and the Portside Messenger newspaper, to name it after Port Adelaide World War II hero, Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC, DCM instead of the State Government's unpopular choice of the 'Power Bridge'.

Transitplus

Transitplus was based in Aldgate in the Adelaide Hills and had two depots located in Aldgate and Mount Barker.

Walter Griffiths

Born in Kent Town, South Australia, the son of Frederick Griffiths, a wealthy ironmonger, and his wife Helen, née Giles, Griffiths attended St Aloysius College and Saint Peter's College in Adelaide.

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.

What Happened to Jean

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

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.