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Adelaide River

Adelaide River is a township in the of the that played an important role in the defence of Australia in World War II. At one point 30,000 Australian and the United States army soldiers were based around the town.
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Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.
  • Type: Village with 243 residents
  • Description: town in the Northern Territory, Australia
  • Also known as: “Adelaide River, Northern Territory” and “Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia”
Photo: Bidgee, CC BY 3.0.

Adelaide River

Latitude
-13.2388° or 13° 14′ 20″ south
Longitude
131.107° or 131° 6′ 25″ east
Population
243
Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)
Open location code
5QRHQ464+FR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31432426
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2078024
Wiki­data ID
Q17903
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swedish—“Adelaide River” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Adelaide River”
  • Basque: “Adelaide River (Iparraldeko Lurraldea)”
  • Basque: “Adelaide River”
  • Catalan: “Adelaide River”
  • Cebuano: “Adelaide River”
  • Dutch: “Adelaide River”
  • French: “Adelaide River”
  • German: “Adelaide River”
  • Japanese: “アデレード川”
  • Malayalam: “അഡ്‌ലെയ്ഡ് റിവർ, നോർത്തേൺ ടെറിട്ടറി”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Adelaide River”
  • Persian: “آدلاید ریور”
  • Polish: “Adelaide River”
  • Russian: “Аделейд-Ривер”
  • Serbian: “Аделејд Ривер”
  • Spanish: “Adelaide River”
  • Swedish: “Adelaide River”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Adelaide River”. Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.