Port Adelaide is a suburb of
AdelaideAdelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia, with a population of more than 1.1 million. It is a coastal city situated on the eastern shores of Gulf St. Vincent, on the Adelaide Plains, north of the Fleurieu...
lying about 14 kilometres northwest of the
Adelaide city centreThe Adelaide city centre is the innermost locality of Greater Adelaide, known by locals simply as "The City" or "Town". The locality is split into two key geographical distinctions: the city "square mile", bordered by North, East, South and West Terraces; and that part of the Adelaide Parklands...
. It lies within the
City of Port Adelaide EnfieldThe City of Port Adelaide Enfield was established in 1996 through an amalgamation of Port Adelaide and Enfield councils, and is one of the larger metropolitan councils within South Australia....
and, as the name suggests, it is the main
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for the
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. Today, some twenty operational wharves handle much of
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's export produce: wines, motor vehicles, grains, ores and concentrates. It was often the first place migrants lived upon arrival in Adelaide.
Port Adelaide is a very old suburb of Adelaide.
Port Adelaide is a suburb of
AdelaideAdelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia, with a population of more than 1.1 million. It is a coastal city situated on the eastern shores of Gulf St. Vincent, on the Adelaide Plains, north of the Fleurieu...
lying about 14 kilometres northwest of the
Adelaide city centreThe Adelaide city centre is the innermost locality of Greater Adelaide, known by locals simply as "The City" or "Town". The locality is split into two key geographical distinctions: the city "square mile", bordered by North, East, South and West Terraces; and that part of the Adelaide Parklands...
. It lies within the
City of Port Adelaide EnfieldThe City of Port Adelaide Enfield was established in 1996 through an amalgamation of Port Adelaide and Enfield councils, and is one of the larger metropolitan councils within South Australia....
and, as the name suggests, it is the main
port||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-|}A port is a facility for receiving ships and/or transferring cargo. It is usually found at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake. The best ports have deep water in channels or berths, and protection from the wind and waves...
for the
city of AdelaideThe City of Adelaide is a local government area in the metropolitan area of Adelaide, South Australia. It covers the original Adelaide city centre settlement. Established in 1840, the Adelaide City Council is the oldest municipal authority in Australia. At its time of establishment, Adelaide's ...
. Today, some twenty operational wharves handle much of
South AustraliaSouth Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories....
's export produce: wines, motor vehicles, grains, ores and concentrates. It was often the first place migrants lived upon arrival in Adelaide.
History
Port Adelaide is a very old suburb of Adelaide. It was officially proclaimed as a harbour in 1837. Its original name, Port Misery, is said to have been adopted because it was a mosquito-infested swamp when the first settlers landed at Port Adelaide. It has also been suggested the name described the unsatisfactory handling of goods at the site. In 1839, the name was changed to Port Adelaide. Today, it still maintains the port working-class feel but it is slowly becoming gentrified, especially along the
Port RiverThe Port River runs through Port Adelaide, a north-western suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. The River separates the Le Fevre Peninsula, Adelaide’s suburbs and Torrens Island, and is the sea entrance to the port facilities of Adelaide...
.
In 1853, Port Adelaide was the destination of the maiden voyage of the famous
Dutch clipperWhile the majority of the clipper ships sailed under British and American flags, more than a hundred clippers were built in the Netherlands.They were rather medium-clippers than the larger extreme-clipper....
CaliforniaThe iron ship California is the most famous of four Dutch clippers launched in 1853. She was built by Fop Smit and mastered by F.C. Jaski for the company L. Bienfait & sn. On the maiden trip Jaski sailed her in 86 days from The Downs to Port Adelaide, delivering a hundred satisfied English...
, carrying some hundred English immigrants who arrived in what was considered record time for the period.
To service the numerous stores and warehouses established in the area, many railway lines were built around the wharf areas and along streets, connecting to the main lines from Adelaide, which reached Port Adelaide in 1856.
The suburb has many old colonial buildings, such as the
Port Adelaide Uniting Churchthumb|The Port Adelaide Uniting Church in 2005.The Port Adelaide Uniting Church is located in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia...
, primarily near the wharves (St Vincent Street, Lipson Street and Divett Street), that have been placed under State heritage listing.
Geography
Port Adelaide is bounded by the Port River and Inner Harbour to the north and west, and by Webb Street and Grand Junction Road to the south. The main town is along St Vincent Street, with a residential area to the south of the train station along Commercial Road and Webb Street.
Sport
Port Adelaide is home to the
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team that shares its namesake, having competed in the
South Australian National Football LeagueThe South Australian National Football League is the premier league and governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in the state of South Australia....
(SANFL) from 1870 until 1996, and has competed in the AFL since 1997. The
Port Adelaide Football ClubThe Port Adelaide Football Club, is an Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia. Since the club’s first game in 1870, the club has won 34 SANFL premierships including six in a row and achieved the honour of being Champions of Australia on four occasions...
was awarded the second AFL licence by the SANFL. (The Adelaide Crows were created in 1990 to get the first South Australian AFL licence, to the detriment of the Port Adelaide Football Club's 1990 bid to enter the AFL.) Port won 34 SANFL Premierships since the league's inception in 1870, before moving leagues to the
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in 1997. They were nicknamed "the Power" and adopted new colours, because longtime AFL team Collingwood Football Club uses the same colours and similar gurnsey design to the Port Adelaide Football Club's SANFL colours and gurnsey. The Power won the AFL Premiership in 2004, and made a VFL/AFL record in 2007, losing the AFL Grand Final to Geelong by 119 points. A side bearing the club's original nickname, the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club, was subsequesntly established in the SANFL and has since won two Premierships.
Developments
Port Adelaide suffered economic decline in the 1970s and 1980s primarily due to changes in maritime activity and the trends towards the containerisation of imported and exported goods.
The Port is currently enjoying a resurgence prompted by the Port Waterfront Redevelopment project — the largest waterfront urban development project being undertaken in South Australia over the next decade. It involves the preparation of over 50 hectares of former industrial harbour land by the South Australian Government's Land Management Corporation (LMC) and transformation by the Newport Quays Consortium (comprising Urban Construct and
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) into a residential and commercial development that will eventually accommodate 4,000–4,500 people and 2,000 new dwellings. The redevelopment also involves the construction of up to 560 new marina berths in Port Adelaide's Inner Harbour. When finished, this $1.5 billion project will also include six kilometres of promenades, pedestrian and cycling networks, parklands and marina berths
The Port Centre Coordination Group (PCCG) has been established jointly by LMC, the
City of Port Adelaide EnfieldThe City of Port Adelaide Enfield was established in 1996 through an amalgamation of Port Adelaide and Enfield councils, and is one of the larger metropolitan councils within South Australia....
and the Newport Quays Consortium to ensure that the social and economic benefits of the redevelopment project are shared by Port Adelaide and the surrounding areas. The PCCG, using a 'place management' approach, is working with stakeholders to develop and implement strategies for the social and economic rejuvenation within the Port Adelaide.
Additional development activity within Port Adelaide includes the
Port River ExpresswayThe Port River Expressway is a 5.5 kilometer freeway-grade road, which links Port Adelaide and the LeFevre Peninsula to the northern suburbs of Adelaide, and major interstate routes via Salisbury Highway to Port Wakefield Road and the Sturt Highway to Perth and Sydney.The expressway is only...
connecting
Salisbury HighwayThe Salisbury Highway, , is a 12 kilometre major connecting road in the northern suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area....
to Victoria Road on
Le Fevre PeninsulaThe Lefevre Peninsula lies approximately 15 kilometres northwest of the centre of the city of Adelaide, South Australia. It is a thin peninsula of about 30 square kilometres running north from its connection to the mainland....
via a road and rail bridge across the
Port RiverThe Port River runs through Port Adelaide, a north-western suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. The River separates the Le Fevre Peninsula, Adelaide’s suburbs and Torrens Island, and is the sea entrance to the port facilities of Adelaide...
. The road section of the project has been completed. It is anticipated this project will divert heavy road transport away from the Port Adelaide Town Centre, creating an environment for
urban renewalUrban renewal is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. Its modern incarnation began in the late 19th century in developed nations and experienced an intense phase in the late 1940s – under the rubric of reconstruction...
.
See also
- List of Adelaide suburbs
- National Railway Museum
thumb|Conference dinner being held in the rollingstock pavilionThe National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is the current site of the Port Dock Station Railway Museum's vast Australian Railway Collection.- History :...
- Port Adelaide railway station, Adelaide
Port Adelaide station is on the suburban rail route between Adelaide and Outer Harbor, 11.7 km from Adelaide, in the suburb of Port Adelaide....
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