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Adelaide is known as the 'city of churches'
Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia. About 1.1 million people live in the city. The city covers an area of about
1 826 square kilometres and is built on the Torrens River in the Gulf of St Vincent.
The first people
to live in the area were the Aboriginal people. They had occupied
the land for thousands of years before European settlers arrived.
The Kaurna people lived on the land in the Adelaide area. They
were hunters and fishers. Another group, the Peramangk, lived
in the Adelaide Hill.
Sturt's desert pea is the floral emblem of South Australia
European settlement began in 1836 and after a short time, the Europeans had taken over the Aboriginal lands and removed the Aboriginal people to missions at point Pearce and Point McLeay.
The city was officially named in 1836, after Queen Adelaide who was the wife of the king of England, William IV.
Today, the city is run by a city council, elected by the people of the city. A Lord Mayor leads the city council. The Parliament of South Australia is in Adelaide.
Adelaide is the
business centre for South Australia and is a modern city of offices,
theatres, cinemas and 
restaurants. There is a mix of older style buildings
and new high-rise buildings. The city is surrounded by parks and
the Torrens River separates Adelaide form North Adelaide.
Older style buildings have been preserved in Adelaide.
The weather in Adelaide is temperate, which means that it is rarely very hot or very cold. During the summer the average temperature is about 29C but the temperatures can reach 40C for several days in a row. Cool changes with thunderstorms occur during summer. In winter the average temperature is about 15C and rarely falls below 10C. Adelaide is the driest capital city in Australia.
Every day thousands of people travel to
Adelaide by bus and train to work, shop or find entertainment
in the city.
The Adelaide Arts Festival is held every two years. This is the Festival Centre beside the Torrens River.
If you use any of this information in your own work acknowledge this source in your bibliography like this:
Thomas & Sydenham, Adelaide,
Australia [Online] www.kidcyber.com.au (2007)
Go here to read more about Adelaide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide
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updated September 2006 (copyright kidcyber)