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Red carpet arrival for giant pandas...GETTY IMAGES The pandas will live in a 25 acre enclosure that includes bamboo plants and refrigerated rocks to keep them comfortable in Adelaide's hot summers Photo: GETTY IMAGES Wang Wang, a four-year-old male and Fu Ni, a... In this article: Giant Panda, Adelaide Airport, China, Australia, Adelaide, Mike Rann, and Mr West |
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AP Online | 13 hours ago
Australia welcomes giant pandas with city party
...an 8 million Australian dollar ($7.25 million) enclosure that includes bamboo plants and refrigerated rocks to keep them comfortable in Adelaide's hot summers. Two Chinese handlers traveled with the pandas and will stay in Adelaide for a...
In this article: Australia, Adelaide Airport, Giant Panda, China, Mike Rann, and Hu Jintao
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 2 days ago
Lachlan's shot at media waves on his own terms
...people of the Nova and Vega networks, starting at head office in Sydney's Pyrmont, and then jumping planes for Adelaide and Melbourne. In Adelaide, he probably caught up with his new ''special adviser'' - DMG director Paul Thompson who,...
In this article: Daily Mail and General Trust plc, News Corp., Tax, Nova, and DMG Radio Australia
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Son has chosen carefully to avoid painful mistakes of the past
IT IS possible that Lachlan Murdoch, as he winged his way to the ''spiritual home'' of the family media company in Adelaide yesterday, pondered whether the $110 million he has just committed to the Nova/Vega radio network will be the...
In this article: Tax, DMG Radio Australia, News Corp., Nova, Jodee Rich, Kerry Stokes, and Foxtel
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Davison has the will and knows the way to run down Whincup
...be the tight corners around the Olympic Park railway station. ''Those corners are similar to the 90-degree corners at the back of Adelaide,'' he said. ''Those corners really make the cars look dynamic. They are bouncing off curbs, they are...
In this article: Will Davison, Jamie Whincup, Sydney, Telstra, Mark Winterbottom, Holden Racing Team, Ford Performance Racing, and Eric Roozendaal
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Murdoch tunes into radio to buy DMG
...earlier this week to part-fund the DMG acquisition. While youth-oriented station Nova performs well in its Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth markets, Vega has struggled since its inception and DMG has seemed powerless to...
In this article: DMG Radio Australia, Nova, News Corporation, Vega, Daily Mail and General Trust, Sydney, and Melbourne
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Who said Adelaide was staid: it's just Ranndy
Those unkind enough to suggest that the old town had become just a tad ummm . . . boring . . . since Don Dunstan was premier will surely have to swallow their words. Ranndygate! It has a certain ring about it, even if Premier Mike Rann...
In this article: Mills and Boon
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Forget staid - Adelaide has Ranndygate!
...time ago. A chap doesn't normally fling himself at a state Premier and flail him about the head with a rolled up magazine. This being Adelaide, Mr Phillips chose both an appropriate venue and magazine for this entertaining outburst. It...
In this article: Adelaide Hills
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I did not have sex with her
...Mike Rann really does end up losing his job over this incident, it's a pretty depressing result for all.' TONY WRIGHT: Forget staid - Adelaide has Ranndygate! Ms Chantelois, in a paid interview with the Seven Network screened yesterday,...
In this article: Seven Network, Allegation, and Legal advice
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | November 18, 2009
Australia braced for 'catastrophic fire danger'
...have left much of the country at risk, raising the prospect of an even greater threat to communities this season. A heatwave affecting Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, is predicted to push temperatures to 43C, the highest ever in...
In this article: Australia, South Australia, and South Africa
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ITN Headline News - World News | November 12, 2009
Adelaide feels the heat
...a pier. The city's wildlife has also been feeling the heat. A woman in Adolescent, a suburb of Adelaide, was surprised to find a thirsty koala on her doorstep in search of water. "I opened the door and there was a koala and he just let...
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thumb|200px|right|Location of Adelaide within [[Australia]]
Adelaide 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 Peninsula, between the Gulf St. Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges. It is roughly 20 km from the coast to the foothills but sprawls 90 km from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south.
Named in honour of Queen Adelaide who was born in Germany, the consort of King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for the only freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens in the area originally inhabited by Indigenous Australians of the Kaurna tribe. Light's design set out Adelaide in a grid layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares, and entirely surrounded by parkland. Early Adelaide was shaped by religious freedom and a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties, which led to world-first reforms.
Today, Adelaide is noted for its many festivals and sporting events, its food, wine and culture, its long beachfronts, and its large defence and manufacturing sectors. It continues to rank highly as a livable city, being in the Top 10 in The Economist's World's Most Livable Cities index.
- Name:
- Adelaide
- Type:
- city
- State:
- sa
- Founding Date:
- December 28, 1836
- Area:
- 1826.9
- Local Government Area:
- 18
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