Pooraka, South Australia
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| City | Adelaide | ||||||||||||
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Pooraka (/pəˈrækə/ pə-RACK-ə) is a suburb in Adelaide, South Australia. It is 12 km (7.5 mi) north of the central business district.
History
[edit | edit source]The Kaurna people are the people of the Adelaide plains, and inhabited the area for millennia before the colonisation of South Australia.[1]
Pooraka was created as a subdivision of section 97 of the Hundred of Yatala, the latter spanning from Grand Junction Road, at Gepps Cross, to a point north of Montague Road.[2] It was originally known as Dry Creek after the local watercourse (Dry Creek), which is now the name of a modern industrial locality west of Pooraka, at the creek's mouth (Dry Creek, South Australia).
In 1916, the District Council of Yatala renamed the suburb Pooraka,[citation needed] which was believed to be an Indigenous Kaurna word meaning "dry".[2] However, according to linguist Robert Amery, the name bears no resemblance to the Kaurna words for "dry" or "creek". The term has been identified as a New South Welsh Indigenous name for the turpentine tree, which is not found in South Australia.[1]
Pooraka East Post Office opened on 1 December 1965 and closed in 1986.[3] A railway station on the Northfield railway line (initially known as Abattoirs, but later renamed Pooraka) operated from 1913 until it was closed on 29 May 1987.[4]
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