__NOTOC__ Garden Island is a locality in the Australian state of

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 in ...

located in the Adelaide metropolitan area within the estuary of the Port Adelaide River about north-west of the

Adelaide city centre Adelaide city centre () is the inner city locality of Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide l ...

. Its boundaries which were created in August 2009 include “the whole of the geographical feature of

Garden Island A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is ''control''. The garden can incorporate both ...

” and parts of the following water bodies that adjoin the shoreline of the ‘geographic feature’ - Angas Inlet to the north, the North Arm to the south and Eastern Passage to the east. Garden Island is located within the federal

division of Port Adelaide The Division of Port Adelaide was an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of South Australia. The 181 km2 seat extended from St Kilda, South ...

and the state

electoral district of Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after Port Adelaide, which it surrounds, it is a 118.8 km2 suburban and industrial electorate on Adelaide's Lefevre Peninsula, and stretc ...

Since at least 2009, Garden Island has not been located within a local government area. As of 2014, the majority of the land within the locality is zoned as "MFP" which refers to the

Multifunction Polis The Multifunction Polis (MFP) was a controversial scheme for a planned community in Australia proposed in 1987 and abandoned in 1998. From the Greek word ''polis'', meaning "city", it was imagined as a place where work and leisure, lifetime educ ...

, a proposed development with the Adelaide metropolitan area to create “an international and national centre for co-operative research and innovation in science, technology, environmental management, education and the arts.” The Garden Island Yacht Club and Angus Inlet Boat Club have private facilities on Garden Island. Public facilities include a

boat ramp A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a Inclined plane, ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats, and for launching and ...

, a fishing

jetty A jetty is a man-made structure that protrudes from land out into water. A jetty may serve as a breakwater (structure), breakwater, as a walkway, or both; or, in pairs, as a means of constricting a channel. The term derives from the French la ...

, car parking and a public toilet block. The boat ramp is used to launch and retrieve powered and unpowered recreational watercraft.

References

{{authority control Towns in South Australia Places in the unincorporated areas of South Australia Suburbs of Adelaide