Osborne is a
suburb
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in the Australian state of
South Australia
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located on the
Lefevre Peninsula in the west of
Adelaide
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about north-west of the
Adelaide city centre
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.
Description
Osborne is bounded to the south by the suburb of
Taperoo, to the west by
Gulf St Vincent
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and to the north west by the suburbs of
North Haven and
Outer Harbor and to the east by the suburb of
Torrens Island
Torrens Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Adelaide, Adelaide metropolitan area in the Port River Estuary about northwest of the Adelaide city centre. Since European settlement of Adelaide in 1836 ...
.
History
Osborne originally started as a private sub-division in Section 2015 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Port Adelaide. It was named after Captain R.W. Osborne (c.1834-1920). A portion was subsequently added to North Haven. The name was "formally submitted by the City of Port Adelaide at a council meeting held on 10 May 1945" and was formally adopted in 1951 by the Nomenclature Committee. Since 1951, its boundaries have varied as follows. A portion was renamed as North Haven while another portion was added to the suburb of North Haven. In March 2006, its boundaries were varied to ensure that the Osborne Maritime Precinct was within its boundaries. In August 2009, its eastern boundary was extended to the centre of the Port River
The Port River (officially known as the Port Adelaide River) is part of a tidal estuary located north of the Adelaide city centre in the Australian state of South Australia. It has been used as a shipping channel since the beginning of European ...
.
Industries
Osborne is the home of a number of industrial employers, including
* ASC Pty Ltd, a naval ship builder notable for the Royal Australian Navy
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's Collins class submarines and Hobart-class destroyer
The ''Hobart'' class is a ship class of three anti-air warfare, air warfare destroyers (AWDs) built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Planning for ships to replace the Adelaide-class frigate, ''Adelaide''-class frigates and restore the capabi ...
s.
* Osborne Power Station, a gas-fired power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the electricity generation, generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electr ...
.
* Flinders Ports which has two port facilities located on the suburb's coast with the Port River.
Community services
Osborne is the home of LeFevre Reserve, which also hosts a community centre.
There are no schools in the suburb. The closest schools are in the adjacent suburbs of North Haven (North Haven School R-7) and Taperoo (Ocean View College B-12), (originally Taperoo High School).
Transport
Adelaide Metro
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provides two bus services that directly serve the suburb – route 333 that runs between the suburb and Port Adelaide and route 150 that starts on Victoria Road within the suburb and continues to the Adelaide city centre.
The Outer Harbor railway line has two stations that serving the suburb – Midlunga railway station and the Osborne railway station which is located nearby in the suburb of North Haven.
Governance
Osborne is located within the federal division of Hindmarsh
The Division of Hindmarsh is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in South Australia covering the north western and western coastal suburbs of Adelaide. The division was one of the seven establ ...
, 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 ...
and the local government area of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
See also
*List of cities and towns in South Australia
This is a list of town and locality names in South Australia outside the metropolitan postal area of Adelaide.
:For a list of suburbs in metropolitan areas of Adelaide, see lists inside following individual city council articles: City of Adela ...
* Penrice Soda Products
* Mutton Cove Conservation Reserve
References
Notes
Citations
{{City of Port Adelaide Enfield suburbs
Suburbs of Adelaide
Lefevre Peninsula