Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of the 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 name, is Yertabulti.
Clockwise, from top: Port Adelaide Lighthouse and Fishermen's Wharf Market, Hart's Mill, Port River Dolphin, Alberton Oval, Birkenhead Bridge, Wool Stores
George French Angas, Port Adelaide, 1846, State Library of South Australia
Excavation of the Port Dock at Port Adelaide, 1879
A tram on St Vincent Street, 1919
Adelaide is the capital and largest city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide 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. The area of the city centre and surrounding Park Lands is called Tarndanya in the Kaurna language.
Image: Adelaide skyline, December 2022
Image: Adelaide, Australia (February 2017) (33505366456) (cropped)
Image: St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, Southeast view 20230214 1
Image: Adelaide General Post Office (cropped)