Adelaide is actually the capital of the state of South Australia, Australia (it is not a territory at all!) The city itself was named after Queen Adelaide and was the only Australian city not colonised with prisoners from England.
― Anonymous User 12/3/2006
This is completely wrong - Australia's capital city of Canberra and the vast majority of Australian cities and towns - like Melbourne and Darwin - did not use convict labour. Many regions weren't even settled by Europeans until after convict transportation to Australia was banned on the east coast in the 1840s and the west in the 1860s.The Colony of South Australia, did however ban the use of convict labour from its founding - as it was too close to slavery for the settlers' 'Enlightenment ideals' - so Adelaide can make that claim.
Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside (17 November 1831 - 15 April 1867) was an Australian artist. Adelaide was successful in Rome and London, and represented New South Wales at the London Great Exhibition of 1862.
― Anonymous User 10/23/2008
I really like the name. I heard it in the movie "Anne of Avonlea" being the name of Morgan Harris' passed wife.
Adelaide of Savoy (or Adelaide of Maurienne) (Italian: Adelaide di Savoia or Adelasia di Moriana, French: Adélaïde or Adèle de Maurienne) (1092 – 18 November 1154) was the second spouse but first Queen consort of Louis VI of France.