Port Adelaide Enfield

South Australia, Australia
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Port Adelaide Enfield, chief port of South Australia, on an estuarine-tidal inlet of Gulf St. Vincent, just northwest of central Adelaide. The harbour, sheltered by a long sand spit to the west, was visited in 1831 by Captain Collet Barker and was made the port for Adelaide in 1840. Port Adelaide was incorporated as a town in 1855 and became a city in 1901; it merged with the neighbouring city of Enfield (east) in 1996. The Inner Harbour, with extensive wharves, has a minimum depth of some 30 feet (9 metres) and is reached by a dredged channel between the ...(100 of 180 words)