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About
Holdfast Bay
Country : Australia
State : South
Australia
Population :
32 340 (2001 census)
The City of Holdfast Bay is
located in metropolitan Adelaide, approximately 11 km south west of the
Adelaide city centre. The City comprises the suburbs of Brighton, Glenelg,
Glenelg East, Glenelg North, Glenelg South, Hove, Kingston Park, North
Brighton, Seacliff, part of Seacliff Park, Somerton Park, and South Brighton.
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The City was home to the
first European settlement in South Australia, in Glenelg in 1836. It was
in Glenelg that the Province of South Australia was proclaimed by John
Hindmarsh on 28 December 1836. Prior to European settlement, the City was
home to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide plains. In early times, Glenelg
operated primarily as a fishing village and a summer retreat for the growing
city of Adelaide.
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Colley Reserve
provides an important public open space for active and passive recreation,
close to the beach.
The Rotunda
situated in Colley Reserve is a State Heritage Place.
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About
the buiding site around the rotunda
Moseley Square, Jetty Road,
the Stamford Grand Hotel and the jetty are to the south. This is generally
regarded as the entertainment
focus of Glenelg. The site of the proposed Holdfast Shores Stage 2
development is a northern
extension of this entertainment focus of Glenelg along the foreshore.
(Holdfast Shores - Proposal
for Stage 2B
Amendment February 2004 )
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In the background,
The Town hall and Stamford Grand Hotel
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To know more about Adelaide,
go to the Elder Park page
by clicking on the picture
below .
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Others Rotundas
in and around Adelaide
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Adelaide
Elder Park
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Tea Tree Gully
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Adelaide
Hindmarsh Rotunda
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Adelaide
Kingston Gardens
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