South Australia

• Aboriginal Australians
• Banking & Finance
• Colony
• Communications
• Crime, Law & Punishment
• Defence of the Colony
• Depression Years 1930-1936
• Education
• Entertainment & the Arts
• Federation
• Flora & Fauna
• Gold Fever of 1850s
• Governors
• Health
• Immigration
• Industrial Relations
• Industries
• Maritime Affairs
• Mining
• Miscellany
• Natural Disasters
• Nomenclature of South Australia
• Northern Lands Development
• Police
• Politics
• Religion
• Social Matters
• Sport
• State Boundaries
• Taxation
• Transport
• The Boer War
• Water Conservation
• Women
• World War I

Adelaide

• Adelaide City
• Ambulance Saint John's
• Asylums, Reformatories & Homes
• Beaches & Bathing
• Botanic Garden & Park
• Boys' Brigade
• Boy Scouts
• Bridges
• Buildings
• Bushmen's Home
• Cafes
• Cemetery, Burials and the City Morgue
• Chinese
• Clubs, Societies and Associations
• Coffee Houses
• City Council, Town Hall and Allied Matters
• Day Nursery
• Destitution
• Education
• Entertainment and the Arts
• Exhibitions
• Factories and Mills
• Fires and the Fire Brigade
• Gaols Reformatories and the Law
• Gardens, Parks and Public Squares
• Girl Guides
• Hawkers
• Health
• Hospitals
• Hotels and Lodging Houses
• Housing
• Industrial Relations
• Larrikins
• Libraries
• Lighting
• Markets
• Miscellany & Obituaries
• Museums
• Natural Disasters
• Newspapers
• Nuisances
• Opinions of Adelaide
• Picnics and Public Holidays
• Politics
• Prostitution
• Religion
• Reminiscences
• Shops
• Social Matters & Town Planning
• Statues and Memorials
• Streets
• Suburbs
• Trades
• Transport
• Water Supply
• Zoo

Port Adelaide

• Bridges
• Buildings
• Civic Affairs
• Education
• Factories
• Health
• Horse Transport
• Industrial Relations
• Military Road
• Miscellany
• Nomenclature
• North Parade
• Port Road
• Religion
• Prince Alfred Sailors' Home
• Ships & Shipping
• Sport & Recreation
• Tidal Inundations & Floods
• Tolls
• Transport

Place Names

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• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• XYZ

 

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Port Adelaide - Nomenclature of Port Adelaide

An article in the Advertiser on 3 December 1927, page 14c by N.A. Webb says, inter alia, that its Aboriginal name yertabulti means "the sleepy hollow" - literally, "the land asleep".