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Adelaide is a planned city, and the Adelaide Park Lands are an integral part of Colonel William Light's 1837 plan. [11] [3] Light chose a site spanning the River Torrens (known as Yatala by the Kaurna people [12]), and planned the city to fit the topography of the landscape, "on rising ground".
The South Australian government region known as Western Adelaide and which occupies the area in the Adelaide metropolitan area located to the north-west of the Adelaide city centre consists of the following local government areas: the City of Charles Sturt, the City of West Torrens and the western half of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
There is a Category:Parks in Adelaide which is for the class of open space provided for recreational use which can be described as urban parks and which are located within the metropolitan area known as Adelaide. This category is for things located in the Adelaide Park Lands which do not fit into that category.
He was the first Surveyor-General of the new British Province of South Australia, known for choosing the site of the colony's capital, Adelaide, and for designing the layout of its streets, six city squares, gardens and the figure-eight Adelaide Park Lands, in a plan later sometimes referred to as Light's Vision.
The park is bounded by East Terrace (west), Botanic Road (north), Dequetteville Terrace (east) and Rundle Road (south). [11]Since 2000, in February/March of most years, the park has been the site of the Garden of Unearthly Delights, the first venue hub of the Adelaide Fringe, featuring a variety of music, comedy and theatre shows, as well as food stalls, bars and carnival rides, including a ...
Park 10, also known as Bullrush Park and Warnpangga [1] is one of the Adelaide Park Lands in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.It is one of the few parks (in the Adelaide Park Lands) to still be known most commonly by its assigned number, and is enclosed by McKinnon Parade, Bundey's Road, War Memorial Drive and Frome Road. [2]
Park 12, (also referred to by its Kaurna name Karrawirra, meaning "river red gum forest") [1] is one of the 29 parks that make up the Adelaide Park Lands. It consists of 55.5 hectares bounded by North Terrace , Frome Road , Sir Edwin Smith Avenue and King William Road .
Bonython Park is a 17-hectare park in the north-west Park Lands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. The park was opened in 1962 and named in honour of prominent South Australian politician and journalist, Sir John Langdon Bonython. It is situated on the north-western side of the River Torrens, bordered by Port Road.