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.

Adelaide is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.

* 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.

On 27 May 2009, Caltex Oil Australia Ltd. announced it would be acquiring 302 Mobil service stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, subject to approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

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

In 1924, in the Adelaide Sun an article stated " The word ' stole ' may sound a bit far-fetched but by the time we have told the story of the heart-broken Aboriginal mother we are sure the word will not be considered out of place.

Statues of Edward can be found throughout the former empire, such as those in Waterloo Place, London ; Centenary Square, Birmingham ; Union Street, Aberdeen ; Queen's Park, Toronto ; North Terrace, Adelaide ; Franklin Square, Hobart ; Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne ; Phillips Square, Montreal and outside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Richeza planned to made Brauweiler as the Ezzonen family crypt, so in 1051 she placed there the remains of her sister Adelaide, Abbess of Nivelles, and in 1054 transferred the remains of her father from Augsburg to be buried next to her sister.

He made a request for a helicopter, saying that he wanted to be flown to a plane and then onto Adelaide in South Australia.

This date must be at least approximately correct, since Adelaide made a monastic donation for the benefit of the souls of her sons Margrave Peter and Count Amadeus on 8 March.

Kruse's services ceased in 1963 to be replaced by an air service from Adelaide that started in 1970.

He arrived at Adelaide in September 1876 after a good journey during which the camels were found to be invaluable.

Under the marriage agreement, if Baldwin and Adelaide had no children, the heir to the kingdom would be Roger II of Sicily, Adelaide's son by her first husband Roger I. Technically the marriage to Adelaide was bigamous because Arda was still alive in a monastery in Jerusalem, and it would later cause many problems both for Baldwin and Patriarch Arnulf, who had sanctioned it.

In 2008, Australia's only major international cycling race, the Tour Down Under, centred around Adelaide, became the first UCI ProTour cycling race to be held outside of Europe.

In a historic moment, reenacted in the movie, MacArthur, Marshall met MacArthur's train upon arrival in Adelaide and broke the news to him that U. S. forces in the Pacific would not be sufficient to support any sort of immediate effort to recapture the Philippines.

Experiments were made with livestock too and it was hoped that the banks of the Adelaide River could be developed to include loading facilities for live cattle export.

Varietal styles, made from only the Sauvignon Blanc grape, from Adelaide Hills and Padthaway have a style distinctive from their New Zealand neighbors that tend to be more ripe in flavor with white peach and lime notes and slightly higher acidity.

She will be Artistic Director for the 2012 and 2013 Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

On February 5, 2008 Mitsubishi Motors Australia announced it would be closing down its Adelaide assembly plant by the end of March.

Another pregnancy in the same year caused William to move the household to England so his future heir would be born on English soil, yet Adelaide miscarried at Calais during the journey ( 5 September 1819 ).

Princess Victoria of Kent came to be acknowledged as William's heir presumptive, as Adelaide had no further pregnancies.

Both William and Adelaide were fond of their niece, Princess Victoria of Kent, and wanted her to be closer to them.

The King, aggrieved at what he took to be disrespect from the Duchess to his wife, bluntly announced in the presence of Adelaide, the Duchess, Victoria and many guests, that the Duchess was " incompetent to act with propriety ", that he had been " grossly and continually insulted by that person ", and that he hoped to have the satisfaction of living beyond Victoria's age of majority, so that the Duchess of Kent would never be Regent.

Against Australia at Adelaide in second match of the four match series, the batting pair of Dravid and VVS Laxman proved to be Australia's nemesis again.

Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide each submitted to be the venue of a branch of the Royal Mint and after some deliberation the British government awarded it to Sydney, which began issuing coins in 1855.

Mary Adelaide requested that her new husband be granted to the style Royal Highness, but was refused by Queen Victoria.