Port Road is a major road in Adelaide, South Australia connecting the Adelaide city centre with Port Adelaide. It is 12 km (7.5 mi) long, and is designated part of route R1 within central Adelaide, and beyond as route A7.
Port Road, Adelaide
Southbound on the North-South Motorway, under Port Road bridge
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