Trade links with the rest of the Australian states were established with the Murray River being successfully navigated in 1853 by Francis Cadell, an Adelaide resident.

Roger's consort Adelaide brought settlers from the valley of the Po River to colonize eastern Sicily.

The majority of its people reside in the state capital, Adelaide, with most of the remainder settled in fertile areas along the south-eastern coast and River Murray.

* Adelaide River in Northern Territory

** Adelaide River, Northern Territory, a town next to the river

* Adelaide River Foreshore

The industry began on the Adelaide River, close to Darwin, and moved east to the Mary River and Alligator Rivers regions.

The first mineral discoveries in the Top End were associated with the construction of the Overland Telegraph line between 1870 and 1872, in the Pine Creek – Adelaide River area.

This was the first European expedition to visit the Top End of Australia and it was their aim to explore as widely as possible and establish a settlement at Escape Cliffs, on the mouth of the Adelaide River.

The country from here to Manton ’ s Creek on the Adelaide ( River ) is as fine a country for stock as I have ever seen, the whole of it being well grassed and well watered at all times of the year .”

Murray River is a national park in South Australia ( Australia ), 186 km east of Adelaide.

Onkaparinga River National Park is in South Australia ( Australia ), 32 km south of Adelaide and incorporates the Onkaparinga River Recreation Park.

Finding their way barred by Lake Amadeus and that their horses were getting very weak, a return was made to the Finke River and thence to Charlotte Waters and Adelaide, where Giles arrived in January 1873.

The Djerimanga ( also known as Woolner ) people are recognised as the traditional owners and first inhabitants of an area from the present day site of Humpty Doo east into the Adelaide River wetlands.

Their way of life remained unchanged until first contact with European explorers in the 19th Century, likely during the 1864 expedition led by Boyle Finniss to explore the areas surrounding the Adelaide River.

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.

In 1954, after some experimentation by CSIRO and based on previous successful rice crops, a joint Australia-U. S. company called Territory Rice Ltd. was formed with a plan to irrigate the subcoastal plain of the Adelaide River in order to commercially produce rice.

The reserve is situated on the Adelaide River floodplains, and is one of few publically accessible natural wetland environments in the Top End all year round.

The Window on the Wetlands Visitor Centre overlooks the wetlands of the Adelaide River floodplain.

The first site, as chosen by Boyle Finniss at Escape Cliffs near the mouth of the Adelaide River, on the coast of Adam Bay on the western side of the Cape Hotham peninsula in 1864, was abandoned in 1867 and a second laid out by Surveyor-General George Goyder near Port Darwin in 1869.

The station is broadcast on 104. 1 Darwin and Palmerston and 98. 7 Alice Springs and can also be heard in Batchelor, Katherine / Tindal, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and Adelaide River.

Mitchell recommended it as a site for Joseph Hawdon and Charles Bonney to camp at the Goulburn River on route from Albury, New South Wales to Adelaide, South Australia.

New and continued projects for Rann Labor's third term were claimed to be the biggest infrastructure spend in the state's history, which included electrification of Adelaide's train lines, expansion of the Adelaide tram line, construction of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, the Adelaide Oval redevelopment, expansion of the Adelaide Convention Centre, redesigning the River Torrens Riverbank precinct, expanding mining and defence industries, the Port Stanvac Desalination Plant, and various major road works including the duplication of the Southern Expressway.

Image: High speed dodgems. jpg | A dodgem car in motion at the Royal Adelaide Show

" 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 ").

However, in recent years during the Royal Adelaide Show Week, TransAdelaide has closed platform 1 at Goodwood, and exclusively devoted the eastern-most of the four tracks between Adelaide and Goodwood to a non-stop shuttle service between platform 1 at Adelaide Railway Station and a temporary platform at the Showgrounds named " Showground Central ".

* Royal Adelaide Show

* Mad Mouse at Royal Adelaide Show, now removed.

Popular shows produced in the past at NWS-9 include the variety show Adelaide Tonight, science show The Curiosity Show, The Country and Western Hour, children's show Channel Niners, Here's Humphrey and The Breakfast a Go Go.

* Royal Adelaide Show, an Australian agricultural show

* Royal Adelaide Show

Sigley would later have prime time success as host of Adelaide Tonight on NWS-9 in the 1960s and early 1970s and The Ernie Sigley Show from 1974 – starring notable Australian media personalities such as Denise Drysdale, Noni Hazlehurst, Pete Smith and Joy Westmore – winning him a TV Week Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television in 1975.

During the late seventies, Smith also hosted his own Tonight Show on NWS-9 in Adelaide.

Sideshow Alley at the Royal Adelaide Show.

The Royal Adelaide Show also known as the Royal Show or simply The Show, is an annual agricultural show and fair held in Adelaide, South Australia that begins on the first Friday in September, and runs for 9 days.

The first Show staged by South Australia's Agricultural Society ( later called The Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society ) was held in the yard of Fordham's Hotel, in Grenfell Street, Adelaide, on 8 December 1840, a mere 4 years after South Australia's settlement in 1836.

The first Adelaide Show to be called " Royal " was that of September 1918.

The Royal Adelaide Show attracts almost half of the population of the entire State and even interstate and overseas visitors attend.

The first European settlers of the area ( in the 1840s ) took up farming, and wheat grown in the area was awarded first prize in the Royal Adelaide Show.

They were first settled in the 1840s as farming land, and wheat grown in the area was awarded first prize in the Royal Adelaide Show.

Slinkee Minx also performed at the 20th Anniversary SAFM Sky Show in Adelaide in front of approximately 150, 000 people along with Guy Sebastian one of the largest open air concerts held in Australia in 2005.