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Kurralta Park, South Australia
Kurralta Park is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of West Torrens. Landmarks include Kurralta Central shopping centre, Brown Hill Creek and the Westside Bikeway on a former railway line. History Dr William Wyatt purchased an 80-acre section of land, south-west of Adelaide, which would become Kurralta Park, in 1837. Dr Wyatt (an early Protector of Aborigines The Australian colonies in the nineteenth century created offices involved in managing the affairs of Indigenous people in their jurisdictions. The role of Protector of Aborigines was first established in South Australia in 1836. The role beca ...) made his home, "Kurralta", in Burnside. "Kurralta" is said to mean "set on a hill" in a local language.Dudley Coleman (ed) The First Hundred Years: A History of Burnside in South Australia (1956) Griffin Press, Adelaide. p. 70 Geography The area is bound by Anzac Highway to the south, South Road to the east, and Barwell Avenue to the north. Brownhill Cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Badcoe
Badcoe is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election. Badcoe lies south-west of the Adelaide city centre and includes the suburbs of , , , , , , , , , , , , and parts of and . At its creation, Badcoe was projected to be notionally held by the Labor Party with a swing of 4.2% required to lose it. Badcoe is named after Peter John Badcoe (1934–1967) who grew up in Adelaide before joining the Australian Army in 1952. He served in artillery and infantry and was killed in the Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w .... Badcoe was created as a replacement for Ashford, which was abolished at the 2018 state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Adelaide
The Division of Adelaide is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in South Australia and is named for the city of Adelaide, South Australia's capital. At the 2016 Australian federal election, 2016 federal election, the electorate covered 76 km², is centered on the Adelaide city centre and spanning from Grand Junction Road in the north to Cross Road, Adelaide, Cross Road in the south and from Portrush Road, Adelaide, Portrush Road in the east to Marion and Holbrooks Road in the west, taking in suburbs including Ashford, South Australia, Ashford, Enfield, South Australia, Enfield, Goodwood, South Australia, Goodwood, Kent Town, South Australia, Kent Town, Keswick, South Australia, Keswick, Kilburn, South Australia, Kilburn, Mansfield Park, South Australia, Mansfield Park, Maylands, South Australia, Maylands, Northgate, South Australia, Northgate, Norwood, South Australia, Norwood, Parkside, South Australia, Parkside, Prospect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "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 Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands, 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 Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which includes some of the most arid parts of the continent, and with 1.8 million people. It is the fifth-largest of the states and territories by population. This population is the second-most highly centralised in the nation after Western Australia, with more than 77% 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 26,878. South Australia shares borders with all the other mainland states. 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 (state), Victoria, and to the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of West Torrens
The City of West Torrens is a local government area in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Since the 1970s, the area was mainly home to many open spaces and parks, however after the mid-1990s (1993–1995) the LGA became more residential. History It was established on 7 July 1853 as the District Council of West Torrens, which was one of the first local governments to be formed in South Australia following the passage of the ''District Councils Act 1852''. It became smaller over time as a number of areas within the original boundaries split off to form new municipalities: the Holdfast Bay area became part of the new Corporate Town of Glenelg on 23 August 1855, the Thebarton area seceded as the Corporate Town of Thebarton on 8 February 1883, and the West Beach area seceded as part of the Corporate Town of Henley and Grange on 4 December 1915. It gained an area from the District Council of Marion on 15 January 1903, but subsequently lost the same area to the Glene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Hill Creek
Brown Hill Creek, also known as ''Willawilla'' in the Kaurna language, is a watercourse flowing from the Adelaide Hills through in the inner south suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area, in the Australian state of South Australia. It is part of the Patawalonga River catchment. Course and features The creek rises on the western slopes of the Mount Lofty Ranges near Crafers and flows generally in a west-north-west direction through the suburb of Brown Hill Creek, south of Brown Hill, a prominent hill rising immediately south-east of Mitcham village, and beneath the historic Keystone Bridge in Mitcham itself, the vicinity traditionally known as Wirraparinga. From Mitcham the creek continues along a north-western path through Torrens Park, Hawthorn, Unley Park, Millswood and Forestville before flowing into a constructed drain at Forestville Reserve. From there the flows are directed through inner south-west suburbs to join the Patawalonga River on the southern edge of Ade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westside Bikeway
The Westside Bikeway is a shared walking and cycling route through the western suburbs of Adelaide following the former Holdfast Bay railway line. It provides a connection from Glenelg to the various trails and paths in the Adelaide Parklands. Route The bikeway starts near Mile End railway station and follows adjacent to James Congdon Drive to South Road. The remainder of the trail is in the railway easement with minor roads nearby. It provides traffic lights where it crosses main roads. One of the old railway platforms is still visible at Plympton. West of Morphett Road, the path goes round the edge of an oval and meets Anzac Highway, where it intersects the Sturt River trail. There are quiet street connections to Glenelg North via the Sturt River path or south onto the Mike Turtur Bikeway and into Glenelg. See also * List of rail trails A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wyatt (settler)
William Wyatt (1804 – 10 June 1886) was an early settler and philanthropist in South Australia. He was the third interim Protector of Aborigines in the colony between 1837 and 1839, worked on documenting the Kaurna language of the local Australian Aboriginal inhabitants of Adelaide and was a member of many boards, in fields as diverse as education, medicine and horticulture. Early life Wyatt was born in 1804, in Plymouth, Devon, England, the son of Richard Wyatt. He was educated Shrewsbury School and apprenticed at 16 to a Plymouth surgeon, Thomas Stewart. Wyatt continued to study medicine and obtained the qualification of Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, M.R.C.S. in February 1828. For some time he was honorary surgeon to the Plymouth dispensary, and was curator of the museum of the Literary and Scientific Institution before leaving England. Career in Australia Wyatt emigrated to South Australia as surgeon of the ship ''John Renwick''. He arrived at Adelaide 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protector Of Aborigines
The Australian colonies in the nineteenth century created offices involved in managing the affairs of Indigenous people in their jurisdictions. The role of Protector of Aborigines was first established in South Australia in 1836. The role became established in other parts of Australia pursuant to a recommendation contained in the ''Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes, (British settlements.)'' of the UK's Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes. On 31 January 1838, Lord Glenelg, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies sent Governor Gipps of NSW the report. The report recommended that protectors of Aborigines should be engaged. They would be required to learn the Aboriginal language and their duties would be to watch over the rights of Indigenous Australians (mostly mainland Aboriginal Australians, but also Torres Strait Islander people), guard against encroachment on their property and to protect them from acts of cruelty, oppr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
