Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia.

Adelaide may also refer to:

Places

Australia

  • Adelaide Airport, in South Australia
  • Adelaide Airport, South Australia, a suburb
  • Adelaide railway station, in South Australia
  • Adelaide River, Northern Territory
  • Adelaide Street, Brisbane, Queensland
  • City of Adelaide, South Australia, a local government area
  • Division of Adelaide, South Australia, an electorate in the federal parliament of Australia
  • Electoral district of Adelaide, South Australia, an electorate in the state parliament
  • Port Adelaide, in South Australia

Canada

  • Adelaide, Ontario, a community in the township of Adelaide Metcalfe
  • Adelaide Peninsula, Nunavut

United States

  • Adelaide, Fremont County, Colorado, a former mining camp
  • Adelaide, Lake County, Colorado
  • Adelaide, Georgia
  • Adelaide Peak (Washington), a summit in Olympic National Park
  • Adelaide Township, Bowman County, North Dakota

Elsewhere

  • Adelaide, Eastern Cape, South Africa, a town and area
  • Adelaide Island, an island located off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Adelaide railway station (Northern Ireland)
  • Adelaide Road, a street in London, England
  • Adelaide Beach, a town in the Bahamas

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Adelaide, a character in Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart series of books
  • Adelaide of the Pasture, a character from the animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall
  • Adelaide Chang, a character in The Loud House and its spin-off The Casagrandes

Music

Classical music and operas

  • "Adelaide" (Beethoven), a song for voice and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, after Matthisson's poem
  • Adelaide (Sartorio), an opera by the 16th century composer Antonio Sartorio
  • "Adelaide" (Schubert), a song for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, after Matthisson's poem
  • Adelaide, an opera by Giovanni Maria Orlandini 1729
  • Adelaide, an opera by the 18th century composer Nicola Porpora
  • Adélaïde Concerto, falsely attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, actually by Marius Casadesus
  • Adélaïde ou le langage des fleurs, a 1912 ballet version of Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel)

Songs

  • "Adelaide", a song by Anberlin from the album Cities
  • "Adelaide", a song by John Cale from the album Vintage Violence
  • "Adelaide", a song by Thomas Dybdahl from the album ...That Great October Sound
  • "Adelaide", a song by Ben Folds
  • "Adelaide", a song by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls from the album Gossip
  • "Adelaide", a song from the film of Guys and Dolls, written and composed by Frank Loesser
  • "Adelaide", a song by Meg Myers
  • "Adelaide", a song by the Old 97's from the album Drag It Up
  • "Adelaide", a hymntune composed by George C. Stebbins for the lyrics of "Have Thine Own Way" by Adelaide A. Pollard

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Adelaide (1800 play), an 1800 play by Henry James Pye
  • Adelaide (1814 play), an 1814 play by Richard Lalor Sheil
  • Adélaïde (film), a 1968 French film
  • "Adelaide" (Magnum, P.I.), a 1981 television episode
  • "Adelaide", a poem by Friedrich von Matthisson

Ships

  • Adelaide (1832), a wooden cutter was wrecked in New South Wales in May 1834
  • PS Adelaide, (1866), second oldest wooden hulled paddle steamer still operating anywhere in the world.
  • Adelaide (1879), a wooden schooner lost after leaving Newcastle, New South Wales
  • Adelaide (shipwrecked 1837), a wooden cutter that was in New South Wales in July 1837
  • Adelaide (shipwrecked 1850), a British ship from Bristol
  • Adelaide, a New Zealand Company sailing ship that bought immigrants to New Zealand from England in 1839–40
  • Adelaide class frigate, a class of Australian naval vessel
  • HMAS Adelaide, several Australian naval vessels
  • HMS Adelaide, name of three ships of the British Royal Navy

Other uses

  • Adelaide (given name), including a list of people
  • Adelaide (horse), an Irish-bred racehorse
  • Adelaide Football Club, an Australian rules football club
  • Adelaide Mansions, a listed building in Hove, East Sussex, England
  • Adelaide Steamship Company, a defunct Australian company
  • 525 Adelaide, an asteroid

See also

  • Adelaide River (disambiguation)
  • Adelheid
  • City of Adelaide (disambiguation)
  • North Adelaide (disambiguation)
  • Port Adelaide (disambiguation)
  • Queen Adelaide (disambiguation)
  • Royal Adelaide (disambiguation)
  • Adelaide Street (disambiguation)

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