Adelaide () is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia.

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.

As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions.

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.

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Adelaïde is the heroine of Gioacchino Rossini's 1817 opera, Adelaide di Borgogna.

* Bickford's Old Style Original Kola is produced by Bickford's Australia in Adelaide, South Australia.

* 1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia ; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is " one of Australia's most profound mysteries ".

* The Great Auk is the mascot of the Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, Sir Sandford Fleming College in Ontario, and the Adelaide University Choral Society ( AUCS ) in Australia.

The koala is found in coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia, from Adelaide to the southern part of Cape York Peninsula.

South of Adelaide, South Australia is home to a colony of 2000 fairy penguins.

It is the focal point of the vast Lake Eyre Basin and is found in South Australia, some north of Adelaide.

The Adelaide point is found in Australia.

The nearest city to Perth with a population of more than 100, 000 is Adelaide, South Australia, which is away.

Author Bill Bryson states that Perth is the most remote city on earth, which he justifies by noting that the population of metropolitan Perth is greater than the combined populations of the rest of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and South Australia, west of Adelaide.

The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) ( in which they are known as the Power ) and the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) ( in which they are known as the Magpies ).< ref >

Settlement of seven vessels and 636 people was temporarily made at Kingscote on Kangaroo Island, until the official site of the colony was selected where Adelaide is currently located.

It is known that she was frequently at odds with her mother-in-law, Adelaide of Italy, and this caused an estrangement between Otto II and Adelaide.

In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade starring Adelaide Hall, who took Lena under her wing.

In 1958, Horne was nominated for a Tony Award for " Best Actress in a Musical " ( for her part in the " Calypso " musical Jamaica ) which, at Lena's request featured her longtime friend Adelaide Hall.

The original cast featured Bob Hoskins as Nathan Detroit, Julia McKenzie as Adelaide, Ian Charleson as Sky and Julie Covington as Sarah.

The club was a white-only establishment even though it featured many of the greatest African American entertainers of the era including Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Lottie Gee, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Ethel Waters.

Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, one of the most prominent songwriting teams of the era, and Harold Arlen provided the songs for the revues, one of which, " Blackbirds of 1928 ", starring Adelaide Hall featured the songs " I Can't Give You Anything But Love " and " Diga Diga Doo ", produced by Lew Leslie on Broadway.

" However, more recently, their music has been featured in a number of hit movies and TV series, including The Break-Up (" Salome ", " Melt Show ", " Timebomb "), Ed (" Question ", " King of All the World "), Scrubs (" Question "), and Veronica Mars (" Adelaide ", " Four-Leaf Clover ", " The New Kid ").

* In 2009 Adelaide Fringe featured 508 comedy, theatre, music, dance and visual art shows.

The show also featured the vocals of Australian girls ' high school choirs from Penrhos College when in Perth, and, while in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane, it featured the vocals of 100 girls from the Australian Girls Choir.

His work has been featured in major festivals including Ars Electronica, Festival D ' Automne de Paris, Edinburgh Festival, BAM's Next Wave Festival in New York, Bang on a Can Marathon, Sydney Biennale and Adelaide Festival.

The fourth biennial Adelaide Film Festival was held between 19 February and 1 March and featured more than 150 films from 49 different countries.

The current SARL was incorporated on 28 July 1976 and originally featured teams from North Adelaide, South Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Glenelg, Norwood and West Lakes.

Gordon's music has been presented at the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, The Kitchen, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Royal Albert Hall, the Bonn Oper and the Jewish Museum in Vienna ; at the Rotterdam, Edinburgh, St. Petersburg, Holland, Adelaide, Huddersfield, Settembre Musica and Dresden music festivals ; in the choreography of Eliot Feld, the Royal Ballet, emio greco / pc, Heinz Spoerli and other dance companies ; and as a featured artist in the repertoires of Ensemble Modern, Alarm Will Sound, and the Kronos Quartet.

Tjilbruke was an important figure in the Dreamtime stories of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains.

Meanwhile Deniehy became a leading figure in Sydney's small but lively literary world and in radical politics ; artist Adelaide Ironside was an associate.

In 1971, the band was joined by Belfast-born Bernard Neeson, an arts student and former Army sergeant and already a prominent figure on the Adelaide music scene.

Sir John Lavington Bonython ( 1875 – 1960 ) was a prominent public figure in Adelaide, known for his work in journalism, business and politics.

Governor Gawler took over from Hindmarsh in late 1838 and, despite being under orders from the Select Committee on South Australia in Britain not to undertake any public works, promptly oversaw construction of a governor's house, the Adelaide Gaol, police barracks, a hospital, a customs house and a wharf at Port Adelaide.

Adelaide had also become economically self-sufficient during this period, but at heavy cost: as a result of Gawler's public works the colony was heavily in debt and relied on bail-outs from London to stay afloat.

An AFL Premiership season match at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast, Queensland | Gold Coast between Adelaide Crows | Adelaide and Melbourne Football Club | Melbourne.

King Casimir continued living with Christine despite complaints by Pope Innocent VI on behalf of Queen Adelaide.

Baudot married Marie Josephine Adelaide Langrognet on January 15, 1890.

Holden founded a new company in 1919, Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd ( HMBB ) specialising in car bodies and utilising a facility on King William Street in Adelaide.

Mattheiu I went on to marry Adelaide of Maurienne.

Junius Brutus Booth's wife, Adelaide Delannoy Booth, was granted a divorce in 1851 on grounds of adultery, and Holmes legally wed John Wilkes Booth's father on May 10, 1851, the youth's 13th birthday.

In 1993, Bevan Morris campaigned for a seat in a district in suburban Adelaide for the Australian House of Representatives on the NLP ticket.

The first settlement to be established was Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, on 26 July 1836, five months before Adelaide was founded.

He helped establish the Adelaide Community College and lectured on Aboriginal cultures.

Because Otto III was still a child, his grandmother Adelaide of Italy took over the regency until Otto III became old enough to rule on his own.

The first commercial networks in Australia involved commercial stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and later Perth, sharing programming, with each network forming networks based on their allocated channel numbers: TCN-9 Sydney, GTV-9 Melbourne, QTQ-9 Brisbane, NWS-9 Adelaide and STW-9 Perth together formed the Nine Network, while their equivalents on VHF channels 7 and 10 formed the Seven Network and Network Ten respectively.