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North Terrace, Adelaide
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North Terrace is one of the four terraces that bound the central business and residential district of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It runs east-west, along the edge of the square mile. The western end continues on to Port Road, and the eastern end continues across the Adelaide Parklands as Botanic Road, theoretically, the northern side of North Terrace is part of the Adelaide Parklands. However, much of the space between North Terrace and the River Torrens is occupied by institutions and other public buildings. The tram now operates from Glenelg to South Terrace, along the length of King William Street to North Terrace, along North Terrace to West Terrace. Talk of possible further extensions periodically surfaces in newspapers and politicians speeches, Australia Award for Urban Design South Australia portal Australian Roads portal
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North Terrace looking east
North Terrace, Adelaide
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North Terrace, looking south-west from
Bonython Hall.
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Adelaide in 1839 as viewed south-east from the western end of North Terrace, including
Holy Trinity Church. (The church tower lost its "peaked cap" in 1844.)
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South Australia
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South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country, with a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres, it is the fourth-largest of Australias states and territories. Other population centres in the state are relatively small, the state comprises less than 8 percent of the Australian population and ranks fifth in population among the six states and two territories. The majority of its people reside in Adelaide, most of the remainder are settled in fertile areas along the south-eastern coast and River Murray. The states colonial origins are unique in Australia as a settled, planned British province. Official settlement began on 28 December 1836, when the colony was proclaimed at the Old Gum Tree by Governor John Hindmarsh, as with the rest of the continent, the region had been long occupied by Aboriginal peoples, who were organised into numerous tribes and languages. The first British settlement to be established was Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, on 26 July 1836, the guiding principle behind settlement was that of systematic colonisation, a theory espoused by Edward Gibbon Wakefield that was later employed by the New Zealand Company. The goal was to establish the province as a centre of civilisation for free immigrants, promising civil liberties, although its history is marked by economic hardship, South Australia has remained politically innovative and culturally vibrant. Today, it is known for its wine and numerous cultural festivals. The states economy is dominated by the agricultural, manufacturing and mining industries, the state has an increasingly significant finance sector as well. Evidence of human activity in South Australia dates back as far as 20,000 years, with flint mining activity, in addition wooden spears and tools were made in an area now covered in peat bog in the South East. Kangaroo Island was inhabited long before the island was cut off by rising sea levels, thijssen named his discovery Pieter Nuyts Land, after the highest ranking individual on board. The complete coastline of South Australia was first mapped by Matthew Flinders, the land which now forms the state of South Australia was claimed for Britain in 1788 as part of the colony of New South Wales. Although the new colony included almost two-thirds of the continent, early settlements were all on the eastern coast and it took more than forty years before any serious proposal to establish settlements in the south-western portion of New South Wales were put forward. In 1834, the British Parliament passed the South Australia Act 1834, the act stated that 802,511 square kilometres would be allotted to the colony and it would be convict-free. In contrast to the rest of Australia, terra nullius did not apply to the new province, although the patent guaranteed land rights under force of law for the indigenous inhabitants it was ignored by the South Australian Company authorities and squatters. Settlement of seven vessels and 636 people was made at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island. The first immigrants arrived at Holdfast Bay in November 1836, the Colonisation Commissioners intended to establish a police service as soon as misconduct within the increasing population warranted it
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European settlers with Aborigines, 1850
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Flag
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Satellite image of eastern South Australia. Note the dry lakes (white patches) in the north
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Lake Albert, a freshwater lake near the mouth of the
Murray River
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French Renaissance
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The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic, the French Renaissance traditionally extends from the French invasion of Italy in 1494 during the reign of Charles VIII until the death of Henry IV in 1610. The reigns of Francis I of France and his son Henry II are generally considered the apex of the French Renaissance, the word Renaissance is a French word, whose literal translation into English is Rebirth. The word Renaissance was first used and defined by French historian Jules Michelet, in his 1855 work, as a French citizen and historian, Michelet also claimed the Renaissance as a French movement. His work is at the origin of the use of the French word Renaissance in other languages, for a chronological list of French Renaissance artists, see List of French Renaissance artists. In 1516, Francis I of France invited Leonardo da Vinci to the Château dAmboise and provided him with the Château du Clos Lucé, then called Château de Cloux, as a place to stay and work. Leonardo, a painter and inventor, arrived with three of his paintings, namely the Mona Lisa, Sainte Anne, and Saint Jean Baptiste. There are a number of French artists of talent in this period including the painter Jean Fouquet of Tours. Marie de Medici, Henry IVs queen, invited the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens to France, another Flemish artist working for the court was Frans Pourbus the younger. Outside France, working for the dukes of Lorraine, one finds a very different late mannerist style in the artists Jacques Bellange, Claude Deruet and Jacques Callot. Having little contact with the French artists of the period, they developed a heightened, extreme, and often erotic mannerism, the old Louvre castle in Paris was also rebuilt under the direction of Pierre Lescot and would become the core of a brand new Renaissance château. To the west of the Louvre, Catherine de Medici had built for her the Tuileries palace with extensive gardens and they became an extension of the chateaux that they surrounded, and were designed to illustrate the Renaissance ideals of measure and proportion. Burgundy, the mostly French-speaking area unified with the Kingdom of France in 1477, was the center of Europe in the early. The Burgundian style gave birth to the Franco-Flemish style of polyphony which dominated European music in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. However, by the end of the 15th century, a French national character was becoming distinct in music of the French royal and aristocratic courts, guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois are two notable examples from the Burgundian school during the early Renaissance period. The most renowned composer in Europe, Josquin des Prez, worked for a time in the court of Louis XII, Francis I, who became king that year, made the creation of an opulent musical establishment a priority. By far the most significant contribution of France to music in the Renaissance period was the chanson, the chanson in the early 16th century was characterised by a dactylic opening and contrapuntal style which was later adopted by the Italian canzona, the predecessor of the sonata. Typically chansons were for three or four voices, without accompaniment, but the most popular examples were inevitably made into instrumental versions as well
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Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels,
Melun Diptych by
Jean Fouquet, c.1450.
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Château de Chambord (1519–1547).
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Renaissance
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Francis I of France, by
Jean and
François Clouet (c.1535, oil on panel) (Louvre).
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Mansard roof
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A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The steep roof with windows creates a floor of habitable space. The upper slope of the roof may not be visible from street level when viewed from close proximity to the building, the earliest known example of a mansard roof is credited to Pierre Lescot on part of the Louvre built around 1550. This roof design was popularized in the early 17th century by François Mansart and it became especially fashionable during the Second French Empire of Napoléon III. Mansard in Europe also means the attic space itself, not just the roof shape and is used in Europe to mean a gambrel roof. Two distinct traits of the mansard roof – steep sides and a double pitch – sometimes lead to it being confused with other roof types. Since the upper slope of a roof is rarely visible from the ground. The gambrel roof style, commonly seen in barns in North America, is a cousin of the mansard. Both mansard and gambrel roofs fall under the classification of curb roofs. However, the mansard is a hip roof, with slopes on all sides of the building. French roof is used as a synonym for a mansard but is also defined as an American variation of a mansard with the lower pitches nearly vertical. In France and Germany, no distinction is made between gambrels and mansards – they are both called mansards, in the French language, mansarde can be a term for the style of roof, or for the garret living space, or attic, directly within it. The mansard style makes use of the interior space of the attic. Often the decorative potential of the Mansard is exploited through the use of convex or concave curvature, one frequently seen explanation for the popularity of the mansard style is that it served to shelter its owners against taxes as well as rain. Later examples suggest that either French or American buildings were taxed by their height to the base of the roof and this last explanation is the nearest to the truth, a Parisian law had been in place since 1783, restricting the heights of buildings to 20 metres. The height was measured up to the cornice line, making any living space contained in a mansard roof exempt. A1902 revision of the law permitted building three or even four stories within such a roof, the style was popularized in France by architect François Mansart. Although he was not the inventor of the style, his extensive and prominent use of it in his designs gave rise to the mansard roof
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A mansard roof on the
Château de Dampierre (1675–1683), by
Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of
François Mansart.
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The Landed Gentry House in
Szczecin,
Poland
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Mansard rooftops along
Boulevard Haussmann in Paris constructed during the
Second French Empire.
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The
Germania Life Insurance Company Building in
New York City, built in 1911, with a four-storey mansard roof
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Keith Conlon
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1968, B. A.1968, OAM, is a veteran Australian broadcaster based in Adelaide. Conlon previously presented talk radio station 5AAs breakfast program with Jane Reilly and he is also the current chairman of the Crows Foundation for children in need. In 1971, The University of Adelaides Department of Adult Education appointed Keith as the Producer/Manager of its new community station which commenced broadcasting as VL5UV on 28 June 1972. He also formerly hosted Postcards SA on the Nine Network from 1995 until it was cancelled in November 2011, conlon has also worked at ABC891 where notably his former colleague John Kenneally was his producer. He presented the weeknight edition of ABC News in South Australia from 1989 to 1992, in 2012 Keith was teamed with Jane Reilly and he retired in 2013
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Keith Conlon, giving a talk in relation to the 200th anniversary of the death of
Matthew Flinders, at the
State Library of South Australia, 21 July 2014.
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Matthew Flinders
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Captain Matthew Flinders RN was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent. Flinders made three voyages to the ocean between 1791 and 1810. In the second voyage, George Bass and Flinders confirmed that Van Diemens Land was an island, in the third voyage, Flinders circumnavigated the mainland of what was to be called Australia, accompanied by Aboriginal man Bungaree. Heading back to England in 1803, Flinders vessel needed urgent repairs at Isle de France, although Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought the scientific nature of his work would ensure safe passage, but a suspicious governor kept him under arrest for more than six years. Flinders health had suffered, however, and although he reached home in 1810, he did not live to see the publication of his widely praised book and atlas, A Voyage to Terra Australis. Flinders was born in Donington, Lincolnshire, England, the son of Matthew Flinders, a surgeon, and his wife Susannah, née Ward. In his own words, he was induced to go to sea against the wishes of my friends from reading Robinson Crusoe, initially serving on HMS Alert, he transferred to HMS Scipio, and in July 1790 was made midshipman on HMS Bellerophon under Captain Pasley. By Pasleys recommendation, he joined Captain Blighs expedition on HMS Providence and this was also Blighs second Breadfruit Voyage following on from the ill-fated voyage of the Bounty. The passage between the Australian mainland and Tasmania enabled savings of several days on the journey from England, in honour of this discovery, the largest island in Bass Strait would later be named Flinders Island. The town of Flinders near the mouth of Western Port also commemorates Bass discovery of that bay, Flinders never entered Western Port, and passed Cape Schanck only on 3 May 1802. Flinders once more sailed the Norfolk, this time north on 17 July 1799 and he touched down at Pumicestone Passage, Redcliffe and Coochiemudlo Island and also rowed ashore at Clontarf. During this visit he named Redcliffe after the Red Cliffs, in March 1800, Flinders rejoined the Reliance and set sail for England. Banks used his influence with Earl Spencer to convince the Admiralty of the importance of an expedition to chart the coastline of New Holland. As a result, in January 1801, Flinders was given command of the Investigator, a 334-ton sloop, the Investigator set sail for New Holland on 18 July 1801. Attached to the expedition was the botanist Robert Brown, botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer, due to the scientific nature of the expedition, Flinders was issued with a French passport, despite England and France then being at war. On 17 April 1801, Flinders married his longtime friend Ann Chappelle and had hoped to bring her with him to Port Jackson, however the Admiralty had strict rules against wives accompanying captains. This is well documented in correspondence between Flinders and his benefactor, Sir Joseph Banks in May 1801. I have but time to tell you that the news of your marriage, the Lords of the Admiralty have heard also that Mrs. Flinders is on board the Investigator, and that you have some thought of carrying her to sea with you
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Matthew Flinders
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Memorial at
Flinders, Victoria commemorating the discovery of
Western Port on 4 January 1798, by George Bass and the later passage of
Bass Strait by Bass and Flinders in the same year.
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View of Port Jackson taken from South from A Voyage to
Terra Australis.
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1744 Chart of Hollandia Nova – Terra Australis.
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South Australian Museum
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The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the precinct of the Adelaide Parklands. Frederick George Waterhouse offered his services as curator of the South Australian Institute Museum in June 1859 in an honorary capacity, when the Institute building was completed, the Board appointed him as the first curator, a position he held until his retirement in February 1882. He was succeeded by Wilhelm Haacke, who in January 1883 recommended the South Australian Institute Museum be renamed the South Australian Museum, Wilhelm was appointed the first of eleven Directors of the South Australian Institute Museum. In the late 1990s, championed by Liberal Government Arts Minister, Diana Laidlaw, the following decade Premier and Arts Minister, Mike Rann, funded the redevelopment of the Pacific Cultures Gallery and the development of the South Australian Biodiversity Gallery. In 2011 Mr Rann appointed former Adelaide Lord Mayor and Education Minister The Hon Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM as Chair of the Museum board, the current Director, appointed in December 2013, is Brian Oldman. The museum contains the largest collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural artefacts in the world, the artefact collection is currently being digitised, with the aim of eventually making the catalogue available for on-line access, especially to Aboriginal communities around Australia. Management of the Museum is prescribed under the South Australian Museum Act 1976, the Museum is a Division of Arts South Australia within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet which transitioned to the Department of State Development on 1 July 2014. The Museum Board comprises eight people appointed by the Minister, the board functions as a body corporate
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The South Australian Museum situated on
Adelaide 's cultural boulevard,
North Terrace
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The water feature 14 Pieces by
Angela and Hossein Valamanesh, in front of the South Australian Museum, is based on the forms of
ichthyosaur vertebrae.
South Australian Museum
South Australian Museum
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Art Gallery of South Australia
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The Art Gallery of South Australia, located on the cultural boulevard of North Terrace in Adelaide, is one of three significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of over 35,000 works of art, making it, after the National Gallery of Victoria and it was known as the National Gallery of South Australia until 1967 when the current name was adopted. As well as its permanent collection, the AGSA displays a number of visiting every year. The gallery was established in 1881 and opened in two rooms of the library by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, later George V of Great Britain. The present building dates from 1900 and was extended in 1936 and 1962, subsequent renovations and a significant extension of the building which opened in 1996 added contemporary display space without compromising the interior of the original Victorian building. In 2016, the participated in the large Biennial 2016 art festival. It has important works of the Heidelberg school including Tom Roberts A break away, charles Conders A holiday at Mentone, and Arthur Streetons Road to Templestowe. The mid-twentieth century is represented by works by Russell Drysdale, Arthur Boyd, Margaret Preston, Bessie Davidson, european landscape paintings include works by Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, Salomon van Ruysdael, Joseph Wright of Derby. British portrait painters are represented in the collection which includes Robert Peake, Anthony van Dyck, Peter Lely. Other works include paintings by Goya, Francesco Guardi, Pompeo Batoni, sculpture includes works by Rodin, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Jacob Epstein
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Art Gallery of South Australia
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AGSA director Nick Mitzevich addressing
Museums Australia conference delegates, September 2012.
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South Australian Register
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The Register, originally the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, was the first South Australian newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1836 and folded almost a century later in February 1931, the newspaper is the sole primary source for almost all information about the settlement and early history of South Australia. It documented shipping schedules, legal history and court records at a time when official records were not kept, the first issue, appeared in London on 18 June 1836 with his friend and partner, George Stevenson, as editor. Thomas embarked for South Australia aboard the Africaine later that year, arriving on 10 November 1836 with his family and equipment to set up a printing plant. It was six months before the first colonial edition of The Register was printed on 3 June 1837 in a mud hut on an acre in Hindley Street. From the start, the paper asserted a strongly independent stance, stevensons style was vigorous and provocative, making himself and The Register several enemies. The papers antagonism of Governor Gawler led to The Register losing government business notably the South Australian Government Gazette, the printers Thomas & Co. had disengaged themselves from editorial content in June 1839 in a vain attempt to protect their monopoly and lost about £1,650 a year. His protest that he was authorised by the British Government to do its printing failed and, insolvent, he sold the paper for £600 to James Allen in 1842, John Stephens, who had in 1843 founded The Adelaide Observer, in 1845 purchased The Register. Anthony Forster became part owner in 1848, With the death of Stephens in 1850, forsters share was taken over by Joseph Fisher in 1853, then sold to John Howard Clark in 1865. The paper, having been printed sporadically previously, became weekly in June 1838, by 1840, The Register employed a staff of 21 and had reached a circulation of 900. They also purchased its weekly publication, The Adelaide Observer, and established the Evening Journal which morphed into The Journal. The Register outlasted many competitors throughout its history, holding a monopoly on the market at various stages. The Advertiser, founded in 1858, first emerged as a challenger to the paper in the 1870s. The Register was slow to respond, the Advertiser started putting its circulation figures on the masthead, by the time the Register cut its price the die was cast. The Advertiser bought out The Register and closed it down in February 1931 after the Great Depression had severely reduced its fortunes, forcing it to become largely pictorial. Details are from an article marking the 50th anniversary of its first publication in South Australia,1836 Vol.1 No.1837 The press was moved to Acre 46,37 Hindley Street just west of Morphett Street on 1 June. The South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register Vol 1, issue 2 appears, although subscribers were promised weekly publication, subsequent issues were published on 8 July,29 July,12 August,16 September,4 October,19 October,11 November. Price at this time was 6d. per issue, roberts son William Kyffin Thomas, aged 16, began work for the paper
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Front Page of Vol 1, No 2 (3 June 1837) of the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register.
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891 ABC Adelaide
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ABC Radio Adelaide is the ABC Local Radio station for Adelaide. It is broadcast at 891 kHz on the AM band, 5AN started transmitting on 15 October 1937 with equipment located in the central telephone exchange, and a radio mast located in Post Office Place. The station transmitter moved to Brooklyn Park, the site of 5CL on 4 May 1944, the radio mast was moved from the east side of the building to the south side to make way for an airport road in 1952. In the 1980s the radio manager was David Hill, in 2000 the 5AN branding was replaced with 891 ABC Adelaide. This was shortened to ABC Adelaide at the beginning of 2017, the power level of 5AN was upgraded to 50 kW in the early 1950s. The transmitter for this was housed in the building as for 5CL. The transmitter was manufactured by STC, the final stage of the transmitter contained three parallel 3J/261E air cooled triodes running in class C amplifier at 90% efficiency. These were driven by a class B modulator with the type of valves. On Fridays, during the AFL season, Sonya Feldhoff and Peter Goers co-host the Afternoon program, ABC Adelaide Online ABC Adelaide Program Schedule
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891 ABC Adelaide
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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List of national and state libraries
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A national library is specifically established by the government of a nation to serve as the pre-eminent repository of information for that country. Unlike public libraries, they rarely allow citizens to borrow books, often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant works, such as the Gutenberg Bible. National libraries are usually notable for their size, compared to that of other libraries in the same country, some national libraries may be thematic or specialized in some specific domains, beside or in replacement of the main national library. National libraries of Europe participate in The European Library and this is a service of The Conference of European National Librarians. The list below is organized alphabetically by country, according to the list of states, including. A ♦ indicates a national library of a constituent country or dependent state and it is listed under the sovereign state which governs that entity. Sovereign states are listed even when they have no library or when the existence. Other states, constituent countries and dependent states are listed if they have a national library. A state library is established by a state to serve as the preeminent repository of information for that region, international Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. National Libraries of the World, Address List, international Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Archived from the original on 2008-12-18, note, the IFLA now links to the Wikipedia list above instead of maintaining its own list, see also the Annual Report 2009 of the National Libraries Section
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United States Library of Congress, Jefferson Building
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State Library of New South Wales
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The State Library of New South Wales is a large reference and research library open to the public. It is the oldest library in Australia, being the first established in New South Wales in 1826, the library is located on the corner of Macquarie Street, Sydney and Shakespeare Place, adjacent to the Domain and the Royal Botanic Gardens. The library is a member of the National and State Libraries Australasia consortium, the first library collections were part of the Australian Subscription Library which was started by a group of wealthy Sydney citizens in 1826. It was then purchased for £5100 by the New South Wales Government in 1869, in 1895 it was renamed the Public Library of New South Wales until its most recent name change in 1975, when it became the State Library of New South Wales. The Australian Subscription Library was established in 1826 at a meeting at the Sydney Hotel chaired by barrister John Mackaness, Library membership was subject to committee approval. Dr James Mitchell, father of David Scott Mitchell, was a member from 1832 to 1853. Fortunately for the later negotiations with the government were more successful. The foundation stone for new building, on the corner of Bent and Macquarie Streets, was laid by Alexander Macleay. Financial difficulties continued, and by 1869 the subscription library was in serious debt, the New South Wales Government was persuaded to buy it for £5100. In September 1869, the Sydney Free Public Library opened its doors with a stock of 20000 volumes, over 60,000 people visited the library in its first year of operation as the Free Public Library. Robert Cooper Walker was appointed Principal Librarian and he, in collaboration with the Trustees, worked to expand the educational role of the library both through collection expansion and the production of printed catalogues of the librarys collection. The library expanded its operations, opening a branch in 1877. This lending branch was handed to the Sydney Municipal Council in 1909, the librarys collection continued to grow, causing continual storage and overcrowding problems, new additions included a First Folio in 1885 and the papers of William Bligh in 1902. Australiana was a focus for the library and David Scott Mitchells collecting activities came to the attention of Henry Charles Lennox Anderson. Andersons stated aim of making the library a National, and not a Municipal, Anderson realised that the library did not have the budget or contacts to compete with Mitchell, and attempted to build a working relationship with Mitchell. In 1898, Mitchell announced his intention to leave his collection to the people of New South Wales, although his offer was quickly accepted, construction of a new building to house the collection was delayed for several years. Construction commenced in 1906, one year before Mitchells death, following Andersons resignation in 1907, Frank Murcott Bladen was appointed Principal Librarian. In 1909, Hugh Wright was appointed to the newly created position of Mitchell Librarian, nita Kibble was another early member of the library staff
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State Library of New South Wales
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State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Wing, exterior
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Portrait of
David Scott Mitchell in the Mitchell Library
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Portrait of Sir
William Dixson
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State Library of Queensland
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The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government. Its legislative basis is provided by the Queensland Libraries Act 1988 and it contains a significant portion of Queenslands documentary heritage, major reference and research collections, and is an advocate of and partner with public libraries across Queensland. The library is at Kurilpa Point, within the Queensland Cultural Centre on the Brisbane River at South Bank, the Brisbane Public Library was established by the government of the Colony of Queensland in 1896, and was renamed the Public Library of Queensland in 1898. The library was opened to the public in 1902, in 1934, the Oxley Memorial Library, and named for the explorer John Oxley, opened as a centre for research and study relating specifically to Queensland. A year after that, James L. Stapleton was appointed Queenslands first State Librarian, in 1971, the Public Library became the State Library. A few years later the Country Lending Service was established to provide book exchange, the CLS is still going strong today, administered by the State Librarys Public and Indigenous Library Services program. In 2003, the State Library began a new mission of establishing Indigenous Knowledge Centres in the Cape York, there is now a network of 22 IKCs in remote and regional communities, across Cape York, the Northern Peninsula. Area, the islands of the Torres Strait, Central Queensland, the State Librarys current strategic vision is to enrich the lives of Queenslanders through creatively engaging people with information, knowledge and community. In early 2011, the library donated 50,000 pictures to Wikimedia Commons, the library holds general collections, including books, journals and magazines, newspapers, audiovisual items, family history, maps, music, ephemera, Internet and electronic resources. There are research collections and services – including the John Oxley Library and the Australian Library of Art, the library is home to two UNESCO Memory of the World significant collections, Labour Party Manifesto and the Margaret Lawrie collection of Torres Strait Islands material. The library holds a collection of Queensland election-related material, including websites, posters, flyers, access to collections, including access to 50,000 Copyright-free Queensland images through Wikimedia Commons Provides books and other resource material to public libraries throughout Queensland. Specialist services to libraries in a number of areas, including services to young people. Public programs and exhibitions, including exhibition loans to schools, museums, outreach programs in reference, research, information literacy, Internet training and digitisation throughout Queensland for public library staff and the general community. A digital culture centre called The Edge, for young people, a free coworking space, the Business Studio, supports startups, entrepreneurs and small business. Free guided tours of the building are available, in 2010, a total of 3730 school students participated in a tour. The then-Brisbane Public Library moved into the Old State Library Building in William Street and this building had formerly been occupied by the Queensland Museum. The Library originally shared accommodation in the building with an art gallery, in the late 1950s, an extension, with a distinctive tiled mural on the exterior, was built onto the building to provide more space. The mural was the design in a national competition held in 1958
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Exterior of State Library
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The old State Library with extension, built in the late 1950s
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Northern end of the State Library of Queensland
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Interior of the State Library
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State Library of Tasmania
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The State Library of Tasmania is the main library of the library system in the state of Tasmania, Australia. The State Library of Tasmania administers and funds all public libraries in Tasmania, there are 7 city/suburban lending libraries and 39 smaller branch libraries located in the main cities, regional and rural centres throughout the state. All libraries share a single catalogue and the collection circulates freely between the libraries, located on the second floor of the Hobart LINC building, Murray Street, Hobart, the State Reference Library contains over 200,000 books, periodicals, maps and directories. Items in the catalogue not located on the floor can be retrieved by library staff from an area called the Stack within 30 minutes. Reference and research services are provided to on-site and off-site clients using a range of print, the Ask a Librarian webpage provides clients with access to virtual and online enquiry services. The library operates several collections and archives of historical publications and documents, all Tasmanian-related material is collected including all works published in Tasmania, all works published about Tasmania, and all works by Tasmanian authors. A collection of books, documents, photographs, works of art and objects collected by Sir William Crowther. The library contains about 15,000 books and manuscripts, as well as photographs and artworks, another collection of historical material, bequeathed to the people of Tasmania by the Allport family to the library in 1965. It includes about 6,000 books, and outstanding collection of about 2,500 colonial-era artworks and collections of Georgian era furniture, British, French and Chinese porcelain. State Library of Tasmania - www. think-tasmania. com State Library of Tasmania website TALISPlus, New Tasmanian Library Catalogue Our Digital Island Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts
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The State Library of Tasmania headquarters in Hobart
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State Library of Victoria
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The State Library of Victoria is the central library of the state of Victoria, Australia, located in Melbourne. It is on the bounded by Swanston, La Trobe, Russell. The library holds over 2 million books and 16,000 serials, including the diaries of the founders, John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner. It also houses the original armour of Ned Kelly, in 1853, the decision to build a state library was made at the instigation of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe and Mr Justice Redmond Barry, Q. C. On 3 July 1854, the recently inaugurated Governor Sir Charles Hotham laid the stone of both the new library and the University of Melbourne. The library opened in 1856, with a collection of 3,800 books chosen by Mr Justice Barry, augustus H. Tulk, the first librarian, was appointed three months after the opening. The first reading room was the Queens Reading Room, which opened in 1859, temporary buildings built in 1866 for the Intercolonial Exhibition remained in use by the library until 1909, when work began on a new annexe building to mark the librarys Jubilee. This new building was the landmark Domed Reading Room, which opened in 1913 and was designed by Norman G. Peebles, the reading domes original skylights were modified and covered in copper sheets in 1959 due to water leakage. The library underwent major refurbishments between 1990 and 2004, designed by architects Ancher Mortlock & Woolley, the project cost approximately A$200 million. The reading room closed in 1999 to allow for renovation, during which light was returned. The renamed La Trobe Reading Room reopened in 2003, as a result of the redevelopment, the State Library of Victoria can now be considered one of the largest exhibiting libraries in the world. In February 2010, the wing of the library on Little Lonsdale Street was reopened as the Wheeler Centre. On 29 April 2015 the Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley announced that the 2015–16 State Budget would provide $55, the grassy lawn in front of the librarys grand entrance on Swanston Street is a popular lunch-spot for the citys workers and students at the adjacent RMIT University. Originally enclosed by a fence, then by a wrought iron fence and gates in the 1870s. A number of statues are in the entrance area, a pair of bronze lions graced the park from the 1860s until 1937. There are statues of Mr Justice Sir Redmond Barry, Q. C, on Sundays between 2,30 pm and 5,30 pm, a speakers forum takes place on the library forecourt, where orators take turns in speaking on various subjects. The landmark Domed Reading Room, which opened in 1913 and was designed by Norman G. Peebles and its octagonal space was designed to hold over a million books and up to 600 readers. It is 34.75 m in diameter and height, and its oculus is nearly 5 m wide
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State Library of Victoria
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Lithograph depicting the original vision for the State Library complex, including the original Victorian reading room dome as part of the never-realised Russell Street annexe
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A panoramic view of the library facade, forecourt and lawns from Swanston Street
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Overview from high above Swanston Street
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State Library of Western Australia
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The State Library of Western Australia is a research, reference and public lending library located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. It is an agency of the Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts. The State Library has particular responsibility for collecting and preserving Western Australias documentary heritage, the J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History is the section of the library dedicated to West Australiana. In 1886, the Western Australian Legislative Council allocated £5000 to be spent in celebrations for Queen Victorias golden jubilee, of this, it was decided that £3000 would be used to establish a free public library in Perth. A foundation stone was laid at a site in St Georges Terrace in 1887, instead, books to the value of £1000 were ordered from England, and the library found temporary accommodation in a building opposite the site. The Victoria Public Library, named in honour of Queen Victoria, the first managers of the library were the clerks to the management committee, W. C. The first Chief Librarian, James Sykes Battye, was appointed in 1894, by 1896, construction had begun on a site at the corner of James and Beaufort Streets, and in 1897 the library moved to the new James Street site. In 1904, the word Victoria was removed from the name of the library, a new addition to the site was opened in 1913. It was called Hackett Hall after Sir John Winthrop Hackett, the President of the Trustees of the Library, Museum, the library shared this building with the Art Gallery and Museum, and the Western Australian Museum still occupies the building today. The Library Board of Western Australia was established with the passing of the Library Board of Western Australia Act 1951, appointing the first State Librarian, Francis Aubie Sharr. The purpose of the Board was to assist local authorities in establishing public libraries throughout the state. However, James Battye successfully resisted having the Board take over control of the Public Library of Western Australia and it was only after Battye died in office in 1954 that the Library Board gained control of the library. It was closed for a year for renovations, then reopened in 1956 as the State Library of Western Australia and this included a section dedicated to collecting Western Australian material – the J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History and State Archives, between 1964 and 2002 the organisation was known as the Library and Information Service of Western Australia. This reflected the Library Boards broader operations beyond the walls of the library, in July 2002, the library once again became known as the State Library of Western Australia. By the late 1970s, the library had grown sufficiently that staff were working from ten different sites and annexes in the city, planning was undertaken for a new building as part of the development of the Perth Cultural Centre. In 1985 the library’s current home, the Alexander Library Building, was opened and it is named after Professor Fred Alexander, the first chairman of the Library Board of Western Australia. Responsibility for the collection and management of records was transferred to SRO
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State Library of Western Australia, Alexander Library Building
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Hackett Hall, home of the Public Library of Western Australia, in 1913
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Inside the Public Library of Western Australia, 1913
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ACT Heritage Library
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The ACT Heritage Library is the state library of the Australian Capital Territory and the pre-eminent ACT reference library. The Library is the section of the ACT Library and Information Services and is located on Level 1, Woden Library, Corner Corinna Street and Furzer Street. Antoinette Buchanan has been the Manager of the ACT Heritage Library since 2004, the ACT Heritage Library collects, manages and provides access to material relevant to the ACTs documentary heritage. It offers assistance in researching matters relating to the ACT, its history, the collection of books and journals in the ACT Heritage Library focuses on the works published in the ACT, by ACT residents, or about the ACT. Special collections include the collection and a small zine collection, the ACT Heritage Library holds 4,000 maps and plans of Canberra and the ACT and plans of some public and private buildings. A full listing of the maps and plans collection is located on the ACT Heritage Library website, the collection of approximately 200 archives and manuscripts collections in the ACT Heritage Library focuses on local groups and individuals who have made notable contributions to the ACT community. Strengths include early education and performing arts. An index of archives held and links to finding aids is accessible from the ACT Heritage Library website, the ACT Heritage Library has an extensive ephemera collection of around 300 archive boxes and 2,000 posters, with a particular strength in the performing arts. Finding aids for the Librarys general ephemera, posters and performing arts ephemera collections are available from the Librarys website, additional ACT photographs held in national and state institutions, as well those from Images ACT, can be found on Picture Australia. The ACT Heritage Library regularly presents small exhibitions and display in their reading room, reflections of Canberra is an online exhibition, sampling the collection of the ACT Heritage Library and reflecting the changing landscape lifestyles of the Canberra region and its community. ACT Heritage Library ACT Library and Information Services ACT Public Library Blog
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Sketch map showing proposed federal territory, and capital site at Queanbeyan in Royal Commission on Sites for the Seat of Government of the Commonwealth (Sydney: Government Printer, 1903), ACT Heritage Library
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Adelaide
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Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2016, Adelaide had a resident population of 1,326,354 million. South Australia, with a total of 1, the demonym Adelaidean is used in reference to the city and its residents. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, Colonel William Light, one of Adelaides founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens, in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people. Lights design set out Adelaide in a layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares. Early Adelaide was shaped by prosperity and wealth—until the Second World War, it was Australias third-largest city and it has been noted for early examples of religious freedom, a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties. It has been known as the City of Churches since the mid-19th century, as South Australias seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the boulevard of North Terrace, King William Street. Today, Adelaide is noted for its festivals and sporting events, its food and wine, its long beachfronts. It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist Intelligence Units Worlds Most Liveable Cities index in 2010,2011,2012 and 2015. It was also ranked the most liveable city in Australia by the Property Council of Australia in 2011,2012 and 2013, prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation. Kaurna culture and language was almost completely destroyed within a few decades of the European settlement of South Australia in 1836, however, extensive documentation by early missionaries and other researchers has enabled a modern revival of both language and culture. South Australia was officially proclaimed as a new British colony on 28 December 1836, the event is commemorated in South Australia as Proclamation Day. The site of the capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light. Adelaide was established as a colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution. Wakefields idea was for the Government to survey and sell the land at a rate that would maintain land values high enough to be unaffordable for labourers and journeymen
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From top to bottom, left to right:
Central Adelaide from
Mount Lofty, the
UniSA Building on North Terrace,
St Peter's Cathedral, the beachside suburb of
Glenelg, a rotunda in
Elder Park, and
Victoria Square illuminated in the evening
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Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the city's namesake
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North Terrace in 1841
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Westpac House, Adelaide's tallest building at 132 metres (Australia's 127th tallest building).
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Adelaide Convention Centre
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The Adelaide Convention Centre is a large convention centre on North Terrace, Adelaide, Australia. It was the first purpose-built convention centre to be built in Australia and it has been rebuilt and extended upon a few times since its original construction in 1987. In 1999 an extension was planned and in late 2001 it was unveiled and it was designed by Larry Oltmanns who was a design partner with SOM at the time. The project won the Royal Australian Institute of Architects 2002 Awards of Merit, BHP Colourbond Steel Award, Interior Architecture, sOM’s expansion and renovation of Adelaide’s Convention Centre reconnected historic parts of the city to the waterfront. The SOM project, was completed with Adelaide architects Woods Bagot. and its rational cooking system, the largest of any convention centre in the world, is equipped to serve 4,000 dinners in 20 minutes. The centres main Plenary Hall can house up to 3,500 people in full convention mode, looking over Torrens Lake, the centre is home to most of Adelaides major conventions. It has also been the location of some significant commemorations of Australian icons, aVCon, an annual anime and video games convention has been held at the Adelaide Convention Centre since 2009. The most recent expansion was announced in 2011, Stage 1 would include a 4300 square metre multi-purpose concert space, meeting spaces and a 1000-seat ballroom over the railway tracks. Mr Rann said Stage 2, scheduled to be completed by mid 2017, Woods Bagot and Larry Oltmanns of Vx3 Architects. Strategists. Urban Designers were appointed as the design team for the $350 million expansion in February 2011. Adelaide Vintage Expo 2013 Tsanzsrs Annual Scientific Meeting List of convention and exhibition centers Adelaide Convention Centre
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Adelaide Convention Centre (right), on the banks of the River Torrens.
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Adelaide Desalination Plant
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In September 2007 South Australian Premier Mike Rann announced that the State Government would fund and build a desalination plant to insure Adelaides water supply against drought. The plant was financed and built by SA Water, a state-owned corporation, the plant was initially planned to have a capacity of 50 gigalitres of water per year, but was later doubled in capacity to 100 GL/year with the assistance of funding from the Australian Government. The expanded capacity represents around 50% of Adelaides domestic water supply, the plant was completed on time and within the original budget. Stage one of the plant commenced operations in October 2011, the plant was officially opened on 26 March 2013. The Adelaide Desalination Project is the largest infrastructure project that the State of South Australia has funded, South Australia, as the driest state in the driest continent, has experienced severe water shortages during periods of drought. In light of the drought, South Australian Premier Mike Rann announced on 11 September 2007 that the State Government would fund and he said the plant would provide insurance policy against future droughts and cost more than $1.4 billion. Then Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd made similar pledges, the site for the main desalination plant was purchased by SA Water from ExxonMobil in December 2008. The plant is located on the shore of Gulf St Vincent just north of ExxonMobils disused Port Stanvac Oil Refinery. It lies within the suburb of Lonsdale in the City of Onkaparinga. The residential area just north of the plant lies within the suburb of Hallett Cove, the plant was originally intended to be capable of producing 50 GL per year and projected to cost almost $1.4 billion. During late 2008 and early 2009 the South Australian Government was actively considering doubling the capacity to 100 GL/year at an incremental cost of around $450 million and it sought funding from the Australian Government for the full cost of this expansion. In May 2009 the Australian Government, under Prime Minister Rudd, announced a grant of $100 million to support the stage of the project under the National Urban Water. This announcement fulfilled Rudds commitment during the 2007 election campaign, as part of this announcement, the Australian Government also committed a further $228 million for the expansion to 100 GL/year. The South Australian Government subsequently committed to the expansion in June 2009, the final capital cost of A$1. Construction of this pilot plant commenced in June 2008, and was completed on 4 August 2008. The pilot plant was operated for two years through to October 2010 and provided information to further optimise the design of the main plant. The procurement process for the construction of the plant was, Expressions of interest Request for proposal to short-listed respondents Evaluation and negotiation Contract execution, the preferred respondent was a consortium consisting of McConnell Dowell Constructors, Abigroup Contractors and Acciona. A 20-year operations and maintenance contract was awarded to AdelaideAqua Pty Ltd, completion of the initial 50 GL/year stage was initially targeted for the end of June 2012
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Adelaide Desalination Plant
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Adelaide Town Hall
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Adelaide Town Hall is a landmark building on King William Street in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The City of Adelaide Town Hall complex includes the Town Hall, Adelaide Town Hall was designed by Edmund Wright and Edward Woods, with construction commencing in 1863 and completed in 1866. The tower, whose stone was laid on 13 January 1864, is named after Prince Albert and is slightly shorter than the Victoria Tower of the GPO on the other side of King William Street. Townsend Duryeas famous Panorama of 1865 was taken from the Albert Tower, the clock, by Thomas Gaunt & Co of Melbourne, was donated by Lavington Bonython and installed in 1935. This league was the organisation that campaigned in favour of federation in South Australia. The meeting at the Town Hall was a public gathering attended by many prominent South Australians. The meeting was notable for the large number of women who attended. The hall is famous for an appearance by The Beatles on the balcony in 1964 and it serves as the seat of the Adelaide City Council, concerts with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and has function centre facilities available for hire. As a venue for concerts, its acoustics and sense of history have often been praised. Adelaide Town Hall is listed on the Register of the National Estate, after the official opening in 1866, a campaign began to obtain a pipe organ for the Auditorium. The City’s amateur musicians held two concerts which raised ₤120 for the Organ Fund, only to see the money used to settle the account for the Albert Bells instead. In 1869, the Adelaide Philharmonic Society was formed and the choir staged 25 concerts over the six years to raise over ₤500 for the Organ Fund. The estimated cost of the organ was ₤1,200 and the Council had promised to contribute ₤600, in 1875 Council ordered an organ from the London manufacturers, William Hill & Son. As a compromise on the cost, the Council decided to have Hill & Son construct the organ so that it could be added to in later years, the total cost came to £2106. 16s. 9d. The opening concert was held on 2 October 1877 but it wasnt long before a campaign to enlarge the organ by adding solo stops began and this upgrade was completed in 1885. Initially the post of City Organist was a one, with George Oughton on the stool from 1879 to 1884. When it became a position, it would have been expected that Jones be appointed, but it went instead to W. R. Pybus. Jones then followed, from 1917 to 1923, W. R. Knox 1923–1928, John Dempster 1929–1932 and Harold Wylde 1932–1966, succeeded by J. V. Peters
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The Adelaide Town Hall's clock tower is a feature of
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Entrance
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Ayers House (Adelaide)
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Ayers House is the modern name for an historic mansion in Adelaide, South Australia located on North Terrace. It is named after Sir Henry Ayers, five times Premier of South Australia and wealthy industrialist and it is the only mansion on North Terrace to have survived. Plans for the historic mansion, which for the greater part of its existence was named Austral House, were developed in 1846 for William Paxton. In 1855, Sir Henry leased the property when it was a 9-room brick house and he transformed it into a mansion over a number of years during the 1860s. It is constructed of bluestone and is Regency period in style. The mansion is thought to have designed by George Strickland Kingston. It was one of the first properties in Adelaide to be fitted with gas lighting, during Sir Henry Ayers parliamentary service, the house was used for Cabinet meetings, parliamentary dinners and grand balls. Internally, the rooms of the mansion feature hand-painted ceilings, stencilled woodwork and contain memorabilia from the Ayers family, Sir Henry also commissioned the building of a basement to allow him to escape the hot Adelaide summers. Since Sir Henry Ayers occupation, the mansion has had many functions including a hall, a club for injured soldiers. In 1909, following an Adelaide Club ball at the house, Henry Newland proposed the purchase the property. Eventually, it was sold in 1914 to Arthur John Walkley and they built a dance hall The Palais Royal on its western side and entertainment areas to the east. The State Government bought the property in 1926 to house nurses, further dormitories were added in 1946, these were removed in 1973. Austral House was closed as a quarters in 1969. Ayers House is now the property of the South Australian State Government, for the last 40 years it has been used as a wedding & event center and museum. In 1970 Premier Don Dunstan overrode his Cabinet colleagues to save the building from being demolished. With his tourism brief he moved to renovate the North Terrace mansion as a tourist and cultural center with a museum and fine dining, the bedrooms became the famous fine dining Henry Ayers Restaurant, and the stables a bistro. Today there are 4 private event rooms
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Ayers House
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Front of Ayers House from within the property.
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Beehive Corner
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The name gained currency from The Beehive, a drapers shop opened by Brewer and Robertson from October 1849 then J. V. B. Ryley from 1850 to 1858, followed by Israel Simmons who ran the shop until 1886, according to one reference it had a beehive motif on the glass door portrayed in gold leaf. Nearby tenants included Edmund Wright the well-known architect, William Ekins the gunsmith, the name is even older – archivist G. H. Pitt found the name was chosen by the original owners to denote a busy trading centre. It had been a landmark for fifty years in 1895 when what is essentially the present Beehive Buildings were built for the owner. It was built three storeys above the pavement, and was Gothic in character, each finishing with crockets and a finial. At the main angle an ornamental turret was corbelled out, surmounted by a gilded beehive and bee, the piers dividing the shopfronts were of Palmer granite. Sliding shutters were fitted to the windows facing King William Street, the sills of the windows facing Rundle Street were fitted with a small iron railing. The architects were English & Soward, in 1950 the prime corner section of the complex was sold to confectioner C. A. Haigh for his iconic shop after his leasing it for some 35 years. The neo-Gothic facade and prominent tourelle were refurbished in 1998 by the firm of Harrold, for over a century, Meet you at the Beehive Corner has been a common phrase among Adelaideans when nominating a meeting-place in the city. Simmonss The Bee Hive ca.1873 Haighs Chocolates 34°55′22″S 138°35′59″E
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Architectural detail of Beehive Corner
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Bee Hive corner opposite Waterhouse's corner, 1866 Waterhouse Chambers survives little changed in 2013
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At night, looking east towards Rundle Mall from King William Street
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Bonython Hall
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Bonython Hall is the great hall of the University of Adelaide, located in the university grounds and facing North Terrace, Adelaide. The building is on the Register of the National Estate and the South Australian Heritage Register and it is primarily used for University graduation ceremonies, examinations, expositions and public lectures and meetings likely to draw large audiences. The hall was built in the period 1933-1936 as a result of a donation of over £50,000 from Sir John Langdon Bonython, folklore also maintains that the Bonython family were very conservative and did not want the building used as a dance hall. Hence, the hall was designed and built with a sloping rather than flat floor. Beginning in 2005, the University has been conducting renovation works, the quality of these works has been rewarded with an Award of Merit at the 2007 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation
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Bonython Hall
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North Terrace, Adelaide, 1940. From left:
National War Memorial, Institute, Mortlock Library, and Bonython Hall
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Bonython Hall (right) and the
Elder Conservatorium
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Bonython Hall (left) & the Ligertwood Building
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Carrick Hill
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Carrick Hill is a publicly accessible historic property at the foot of the Adelaide Hills, in the suburb of Springfield, in South Australia. It was the Adelaide home of Sir Edward Bill Hayward and his wife Lady Ursula, and contains a large collection of drawings, sculptures, antiques and paintings. Completed in 1939 and built in the style of an English manor, it is one of the few homes in Australia to have survived with its grounds undiminished. The nearly 40-hectare property was the gift of Ursulas father to the Haywards. After their marriage in 1935 the couple spent a honeymoon in Europe. They bought many of the furnishings for their new home, including a staircase, at the sale of Beaudesert House in Staffordshire. Construction of Carrick House began in 1937 and was completed in 1939, during this time Lady Ursula designed the gardens. The Haywards claimed a number of artists as close friends. Ursula was an artist in her own right, and her work is also represented, Carrick Hill was bequeathed to the state on Sir Edwards death in 1983. It is open to the public for most of the year, an admission charge applies to the house, but not the gardens. Carrick Hill regularly houses themed art exhibitions, on 13 November 2005, it hosted a reunion picnic for former staff of John Martins, which was for many years owned by the Hayward family. The event coincided with the opening of a history exhibition entitled Johnnies Spirit of a State and was held on the weekend of the Adelaide Christmas Pageant. Carrick Hill Ursula Hayward History - includes information about Sir Edward City of Mitcham, Carrick Hill Postcards, Carrick Hills French connection Johnnies reunion picnic
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Carrick House the main building on the Carrick Hill property.
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Government House, Adelaide
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Government House, located in Adelaide on the corner of North Terrace and King William Road, is the official residence of the Governor of South Australia. The original Government Hut was a hut constructed by the seamen of HMS Buffalo. Governor John Hindmarsh wrote in May 1837 I have but one end of my mud hut finished an all my family lay on the floor of one room while two smaller ones serve for Mrs. H. myself and a female servant. When Kingston received tenders for the work they were in the vicinity of £7,000. After further amendment of the plans to reduce the cost, a contract was let to the builders, Messrs East, the earliest part of the House to be built was the east wing of the present building. It was completed and occupied in May 1840, when completed, Government House consisted of the present main Drawing Room, Morning Room, Small Dining Room, and upstairs there were three bedrooms, a dressing room and two small servants rooms. Cottages have been built in the part of the grounds, originally for the Butler. Governors, their families and house guests make use of all the upstairs rooms, governors formerly used a summer residence in the Adelaide Hills to escape the heat of the Adelaide Plains. Two buildings were used for this purpose, the first of these, Old Government House, was built in Belair National Park in 1860. In 1880, this building was superseded by a residence at Marble Hill near Norton Summit. Subsequently, the Governor was not provided with a summer residence, Government House is located in magnificent well kept grounds which are periodically used for important public ceremonies
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Government House from its southern fence
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Gates to the main entrance to Government House on North Terrace, Adelaide
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Government House with an Imperial soldier on duty (latter were withdrawn in 1870)
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View of Government House and
North Adelaide circa 1933
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Myer Centre, Adelaide
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The Myer Centre is a five level shopping centre in the heart of the Adelaide CBD situated along the Rundle Mall shopping precinct and North Terrace. It is owned by Starhill Global REIT and managed by CBRE, the Myer Centre is the largest shopping centre in the Adelaide city centre and houses the largest Myer store in South Australia, along with over 80 smaller shops. The level below street level includes a food court. The Rundle Mall side of the building has an 8-level atrium, in the 1990s, the upper level housed an indoor amusement park named Dazzeland that included Australias only indoor rollercoaster. The North Terrace facade of the Myer Centre includes two heritage buildings — Shell House and Goldsbrough House, above these and the Myer retail outlet is a 6-storey office tower named Terrace Towers
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Inside of the Myer Centre in 2007, prior to remodelling, looking down from the 5th floor.
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National War Memorial (South Australia)
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The National War Memorial is a monument on the north edge of the city centre of Adelaide, South Australia, commemorating those who served in the First World War. Opened in 1931, the memorial is located on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Memorial services are held at the site throughout the year, with major services on both Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. First proposed in 1919, the memorial was funded by the Parliament of South Australia, the design of the memorial was selected through two architectural competitions. The first competition, in 1924, produced 26 designs—all of which were lost before judging could be completed after fire destroyed the building in which they were housed. A second competition, in 1926, produced 18 entries, out of which the design by the architectural firm Woods, Bagot, in this, the work is not displaying a material victory, but instead a victory of the spirit. Almost 35,000 South Australians served in the First World War and this number amounted to 8. 5% of the South Australian population at the time, or 37. 7% of men between the ages of 18 and 44. Of those who served, over 5,000 South Australians died, the motion was presented in March 1919, and it received unanimous support in the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council. With the passing of this motion, the South Australian Government became the first in Australia to elect to build a memorial to the soldiers of the First World War, there have been at least two perspectives offered as to why the term National was employed. Entry was open to South Australians who were British subjects, the competition closed on 30 September 1924, and there was a one-guinea entry fee. Three assessors were nominated to judge the entries, the South Australian Architect-in-Chief, A. E. Simpson, local architect Herbert Louis Jackman, out of those 28, a total of 26 firms submitted designs by the deadline. On 10 November 1924, before judging could be completed, the Richards Building in Currie Street was destroyed by fire, little progress had been made on the memorial by 1926. By 1925 the National War Memorial committee was prepared to accept the Government House grounds as the site of the memorial and this proved to be fortuitous, as legal issues prevented the plan from going ahead. Instead a portion of the grounds, located at the corner of North Terrace, in 1926, after pressure from the returned soldiers, a second competition was announced. Once again the budget was set at £25,000, in deference to the previous competition, the top five entrants from 1924 were each given £75 upon the submission of a new design, and all of the designs were insured by the government for £100 each. Nevertheless, in his Assessors Report, Murdoch acknowledged that the quality of some of the proposals was such that they probably would not have been exceeded had the competition been more open. After examining the submissions, on 15 January 1927, the design by Louis Laybourne Smith, was selected by Murdoch as the winner. Woods, Bagot, Jory & Laybourne-Smith had entered the 1924 competition with a designed by Walter Bagot. Thus Laybourne-Smith was responsible for drawing and submitting the final design, when announced to the public the design was universally hailed as a masterpiece
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Aerial view of the National War Memorial on
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The obverse face of the National War Memorial, as viewed from the corner of
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Portrait of
Dame Nellie Melba GBE by Henry Walter Barnett. She proposed building a
carillon of bells as the new memorial.
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Louis Laybourne Smith, the architect who (along with
Walter Bagot and
Rayner Hoff) was largely responsible for the winning design.
