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Yatala Vale
Yatala Vale is an outer northeastern rural suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Tea Tree Gully local government area, and is adjacent to Golden Grove and Fairview Park, as well as the rural districts of Upper Hermitage and Gould Creek. Name The name Yatala was used by settlers for a large area north of the River Torrens stretching from the coast at Port Adelaide to Tea Tree Gully. The word is presumed to refer to the flooded state of the plain either side of Dry Creek, which starts near Yatala Vale, after heavy rainChapter 12Weeding Out Spurious Etymologies: Toponyms On The Adelaide Plains (Rob Amery) in: History Yatala Vale Receiving Office (a limited post office) opened on 2 October 1911 and closed in late 1912. Yatala Vale was and is used for agriculture and viticulture. Geography The southern boundary of Yatala Vale is defined by Yatala Vale Road, with the rest of the suburb filling an uneven area bounded by the Golden Grove sand quarries ...
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Division Of Makin
The Division of Makin is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, electoral division for the Australian House of Representatives located in the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide. The 130 km² seat covers an area from Little Para River and Gould Creek, South Australia, Gould Creek in the north-east to Grand Junction Road in the south and Port Wakefield Road in the west, including the suburbs of Banksia Park, South Australia, Banksia Park, Fairview Park, South Australia, Fairview Park, Golden Grove, South Australia, Golden Grove, Greenwith, South Australia, Greenwith, Gulfview Heights, South Australia, Gulfview Heights, Ingle Farm, South Australia, Ingle Farm, Mawson Lakes, South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Modbury, South Australia, Modbury, Para Hills, South Australia, Para Hills, Para Vista, South Australia, Para Vista, Pooraka, South Australia, Pooraka, Redwood Park, South Australia, Redwood Park, Ridgehaven, South Australia, Ridgehaven, Salisbury East, South Au ...
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River Torrens
The River Torrens , (Karrawirra Parri / Karrawirraparri) is the most significant river of the Adelaide Plains. It was one of the main reasons for the siting of the city of Adelaide, capital of South Australia. It flows from its source in the Adelaide Hills near Mount Pleasant, across the Adelaide Plains, past the city centre and empties into Gulf St Vincent between Henley Beach South and West Beach. The upper stretches of the river and the reservoirs in its watershed supply a significant part of the city's water supply. The river is also known by the native Kaurna name for the river—Karrawirra Parri or Karrawirraparri (''karra'' meaning redgum, ''wirra'' meaning forest and ''parri'' meaning river), having been officially dual-named in 2001. Another Kaurna name for the river was Tarndaparri (Kangaroo river). The river was thought to be a reflection of the Milky Way ("wodliparri"), and was the heartland of the Kaurna people, who lived along its length and around the tributa ...
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Adelaide Metro
Adelaide Metro is the public transport system of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is an intermodal system offering an integrated network of bus, tram, and train service throughout the metropolitan area. The network has an annual patronage of 79.9 million, of which 51 million journeys are by bus, 15.6 million by train, and 9.4 million by tram. The system has evolved heavily over the past fifteen years, and patronage increased dramatically during the 2014–15 period, a 5.5 percent increase on the 2013 figures due to electrification of frequented lines. Adelaide Metro began in 2000 with the privatisation of existing government-operated bus and train routes. The Glenelg tram line is the only one of Adelaide's tramways to survive the 1950s and the only one to be integrated into the current system. Services are now run by two private operators and united with common ticketing systems, marketing, liveries and signage under the supervision of South Australia's Depa ...
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Viticulture
Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ranges from Western Europe to the Iran, Persian shores of the Caspian Sea, the vine has demonstrated high levels of adaptability to new environments, hence viticulture can be found on every continent except Antarctica. Duties of the viticulturist include monitoring and controlling Pest (organism), pests and Plant pathology, diseases, fertilizer, fertilizing, irrigation (wine), irrigation, canopy (grape), canopy Glossary of viticultural terms#Canopy management, management, monitoring fruit development and Typicity, characteristics, deciding when to harvest (wine), harvest, and vine pruning during the winter months. Viticulturists are often intimately involved with winemakers, because vineyard management and the resulting grape characteristics ...
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Agriculture
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture in the twentieth century came to dominate agricultural output, though about 2 billion people still depended on subsistence agriculture. The major agricultural products can be broadly grouped into foods, fibers, fuels, and raw materials (such as rubber). Food classes include cereals (grains), vegetables, fruits, cooking oils, meat, milk, ...
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Dry Creek (South Australia)
Dry Creek or Dry Creek Drain is a seasonal stream in South AustraliaWhitworth (1866) p. 69 which passes through the Adelaide suburbs of Modbury, Walkley Heights and Pooraka. The nearby suburb of Dry Creek and Dry Creek railway station are named after the stream. Description In season Dry Creek flows from its source near Yatala Vale in the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Barker Inlet of the Gulf St Vincent via a manufactured drain near Globe Derby Park. The flooded state of the plain either side of Dry Creek after heavy rain is presumed to be the source of the local place name 'Yatala' (as in Hundred of Yatala and Yatala Vale). The name is likely derived from the indigenous word 'yertalla', which means "water running by the side of a river". Dry Creek is mostly dry in summer and flows through a deep gully at the rear of the prison with outcrops of exposed pre-Cambrian rocks that were extensively quarried as part of prison activity.Lewis (1985) pp. 174–175 Yatala Labour Prison ...
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Tea Tree Gully, South Australia
Tea Tree Gully (TTG) is a suburb in the greater Adelaide, South Australia area, under the City of Tea Tree Gully. Tea Tree Gully is in the City of Tea Tree Gully local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Newland and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Makin. History The suburb acquired its name from the white flowered 'tea trees' (''Leptospermum lanigerum'') that grew in the gully. Their leaves were brewed as a tea substitute by early settlers. John Stevens originally purchased land in the area, subdividing it in 1850 and naming the settlement ''Steventon''. By 1867 the settlement was known variously as Tea Tree Gully or Steventon, but Steventon had dropped from common usage by 1900. It was also sometimes known as "Teatree Gully". ''Steventon'' Post Office opened around January 1859, was renamed ''Tea Tree Gully'' in 1872, ''Teatree Gully'' in 1925, ''Tea Tree Gully'' again in 1966 and St Agnes in 1969. The gully is a ...
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Port Adelaide, South Australia
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide city centre, Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the city of Adelaide. Port Adelaide played an important role in the formative decades of Adelaide and South Australia, with the port being early Adelaide's main supply and information link to the rest of the world. Its Kaurna name, although not officially adopted as a dual naming, dual name, is Yartapuulti. History Prior to European settlement of South Australia, European settlement Port Adelaide was covered with Avicennia marina, mangrove swamps and tidal mud flats, and lay next to a narrow creek. At this time, it was inhabited by the Kaurna people, who occupied the Adelaide Plains, the Barossa Valley, the western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, and northwards past Snowtown. The Kaurna people called the Port Adelaide a ...
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City Of Tea Tree Gully
The City of Tea Tree Gully is a local council in the Australian state of South Australia, in the outer north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide. The major business district in the city is at Modbury, where Westfield Tea Tree Plaza, the Civic Centre and the library are located. Howard, Lord Florey, Australian pathologist and co-discoverer of penicillin, was a resident of the City of Tea Tree Gully Suburbs and post codes * Banksia Park, South Australia, Banksia Park – 5091 * Dernancourt – 5075 * Fairview Park – 5126 * Gilles Plains – 5086 * Golden Grove – 5125 * Gould Creek – 5114 * Greenwith – 5125 * Gulfview Heights – 5096 * Highbury – 5089 * Holden Hill – 5088 * Hope Valley – 5090 * Houghton – 5131 * Modbury – 5092 * Modbury Heights – 5092 * Modbury North – 5092 * Para Hills – 5096 * Redwood Park – 5097 * Ridgehaven – 5097 * St Agnes – 5097 * Salisbury East – 5109 * Surrey Downs – 5126 * Tea Tree Gully – 5091 * Upper Herm ...
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Electoral District Of Little Para
Little Para was a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly in the north of the Adelaide metropolitan area, covering the suburbs of Elizabeth, South Australia, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Grove, South Australia, Elizabeth Grove, Elizabeth North, South Australia, Elizabeth North, Elizabeth East, South Australia, Elizabeth East, Elizabeth Park, South Australia, Elizabeth Park, Elizabeth South, South Australia, Elizabeth South, Elizabeth Vale, South Australia, Elizabeth Vale, Gould Creek, South Australia, Gould Creek, Hillbank, South Australia, Hillbank, Salisbury Heights, South Australia, Salisbury Heights and Salisbury Park, South Australia, Salisbury Park, and parts of Craigmore, South Australia, Craigmore, Golden Grove, South Australia, Golden Grove and Greenwith, South Australia, Greenwith. The district was named after the Little Para River, located north of Adelaide, which passes through a number of suburbs with ...
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South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ...
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Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Traditional Owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people. The area of the city centre and surrounding parklands is called ' in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, 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 foun ...
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