How small is Adelaide!

[Origami]

Actually the City of Adelaide is supposedly 1 square mile. I hope this answers your question.

WD Bob B... your on topic in the right thread and beat benny the cunt macca and all the Moderators with the correct answer and no Bad Beat stories and Soccer updates... to tell, and not psot padding. all my country cousins appreciate your concies informative rply.

[Bob B]

Thank you for your observation Bruce. Isn't it nice to smell the roses minus soccer, sarcasm, spelling bees, maccatacks on word and verse and nice moderators being ever so helpful.

[muzzington]

You're just a no-good troublemaker, Bruce!

[David]

Actually the City of Adelaide is supposedly 1 square mile. I hope this answers your question.

WD Bob B... your on topic in the right thread and beat benny the cunt macca and all the Moderators with the correct answer and no Bad Beat stories and Soccer updates... to tell, and not psot padding. all my country cousins appreciate your concies informative rply.

From memory it's 1 square mile...
And really, what it was and what it is should be pretty close...

I do know that West Terrace, to South Terrace, to Pulteney Street and back to West Terrace is 4 miles by distance.

That would mean that area is one square mile.
Weird that it doesn't take in East Terrace/Hutt Street at all.


Side note.

I have had discussions with people about something squared, and squared something... to me they are different!

4 square miles and 4 miles squared is different to me.
one is 2 x 2 (4 square miles) and one is 16 (4 x 4 = 4 miles squared).

[bennymacca]

4 square miles and 4 miles squared is different to me.
one is 2 x 2 (4 square miles) and one is 16 (4 x 4 = 4 miles squared).

semantics david.

what if you wrote them out on paper?

4 square miles == 4 mi^2

really, saying "miles squared" doesn't make a lot of sense to me

[David]

Why not?

Perfectly acceptable to say "n" "measurement" squared

[bennymacca]

Why not?

Perfectly acceptable to say "n" "measurement" squared

so your are saying (4km)^2 ?? - different to 4 km^2 and 4^2 km


i think if you say square kilometres, instead of kilometres squared, you remove the ambiguity over whether it is the number only that is squared, or both number and units.

seems to be common practice to do it that way anyway, in my experience

[Bob B]

Hi there guys. Sorry for butting into your debate but I thought I could add a little bit of history for you on little old Adelaide.

When I went to school they actually taught geography and we learnt about the various countries and who discovered them etc, etc. (not like today). And before anyone asks or has a little smarty remark, NO, I wasn't there at the time okay.

Colonel Light got himself into a real pickle with the then Govoner Hindmarsh and his mates who wanted Adelaide to be a sea port. So he must have really pissed them off when he decided on going inland with a vision of maybe later running a canal from Pt Adelaide to the city.

Any way, most people thought that Colonel Lights city of Adelaide was going to have the streets running north south east west, based on a square mile within 4 terraces. LOL They must have really got under his skin coz there were only 3 terraces that border the city North, West and South.

The east terrace is actually the continuation of Wakefield street which doesn't create a boxed section of Adelaide at all as one would have thought it would have.

Anyway the starting point for Col. Lights vision was on the corner of north and west terrace and there's a monument there with a surveyors thingy on top to mark the spot where he started on the 10/03/1837 and finished the job by the 23/05/1837. From memory he was paid around 400 quid. Again I wasn't there guys okay.

So we know where the square mile would have started from and it's possible it ran down along West Terrace to the South Terrace for a mile and maybe along North Terrace to Pultney Street which is almost a mile.

Anyway he died of tuberculosis on the 6/10/1839 aged 53 he was broke but out of repect they burried him in Light Square where there's another monument at his grave site.

A statue of Colonel Light was moved from Victoria Square to Montefiore Hill, North Adelaide, in 1938, and this is known as Light's Vision. And that's where my eldest son Steven married Jacqui on the 24/05/2008. Isn't that sweet?


square mile 
–n� a �t of area measurement equal to a square measuring one mile on each side; 2.59 square kilometers. Abbreviation: mi2, sq. mi.

[krunchie]

and i thought this was a poker forum

Nahh great post bob

quite informative

[Bob B]

Yeah it's all of that Krunchie that's why it's in the lounge area LOL. Thanks for your support m8.