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Encyclopedia Britannica



PORT ADELAIDE

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 109 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PORT ADELAIDE , a port of Adelaide county,
South
  Australia, 71 M. by
rail
  N.W. of Adelaide. Pop. of the town and suburbs (1901), 20,089. It is situated on an estuary 9 M. from St
Vincent
  Gulf and is the
principal
  shipping port of
South
  Australia. Its wharves, equipped with steam and travelling cranes, and tram-ways, are 22 M. in extent; it has docks and a number of patent slips capable of taking up vessels of 300 to 1500 tons. There are also piers at Semaphore and Larg's Bay, on the other side of Lefevre's Peninsula some 2 M. distant, which are connected with Port Adelaide by
rail
 . The
industries
  comprise silver and copper smelting,
brewing
 , sawmilling, ropemaking, flourmilling,
sugar
 -refining and yacht-building. The harbour is protected by two forts known as the Fort Glanville batteries. The suburbs, which are connected with the town by tramways, are Alberton,
Queenstown
 , Yatala, Rosewater and Kingston-on-the-Hill.


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