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Light's Vision: Adelaide, SA

The town of Aldgate, a bit down the road from Stirling, part of the English/German network of towns in the Adelaide Hills.

AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 4 June 2011 | Views [378]

The town of Aldgate, a bit down the road from Stirling, part of the English/German network of towns in the Adelaide Hills.

The opposite view from Mt. Lofty, looking east. Most of this and more was burned in the Ash Wednesday fires in February, 1983, which was the worst bushfire in Australia until the Black Saturday bushfires near Melbourne in 2009. The fire spread over Mt. Lofty and in 12 hours burned over 2,000 square kilometres of land. 3,700 buildings were damaged or destroyed, at the cost of the equivalent of A$1.3 billion.

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The River Torrens, back in central Adelaide, the main source of the city's water. The Adelaide Festival Centre is the white building on the left, where many of the city's myriad of festivals take place. Some of the world's most acclaimed festivals take place here, primarily the Adelaide Festival of Arts, which in turn has spawned the Adelaide Fringe (2nd largest in the world after Edinburgh), WOMADelaide, the huge world music event, and the world's largest literary festival: Adelaide Writer's Week. Little wonder the South Australia license plates say “South Australia – The Festival State.”

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