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The Sturt River (also known as the Sturt Creek) is a river located in Adelaide, South Australia. Beginning in Upper Sturt in the Adelaide Hills, it flows through Coromandel Valley, the Sturt Gorge Recreation Park, Marion and Morphettville, before meeting the Patawalonga in Glenelg North. Along with Brown Hill Creek, it is one of the Patawalonga's most important tributaries. It is considered a significant urban waterway, and was used by the indigenous Kaurna people as a link between the hills and the sea. The Sturt River Catchment extends over , from Heathfield in the Mount Lofty Ranges, to Glenelg North.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Residents - Patawalonga Catchment - Information Regarding ) 〕 ==History== The first inhabitants of the greater Adelaide area, the Kaurna people, referred to Sturt River as 'Warri Parri', or 'the windy place by the river'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Sturt River Linear Park Master Plan ) 〕 They used it as a movement corridor between the Adelaide Hills and the sea. The river is also significant in Kaurna Dreaming, especially the area known as Warriparinga, where the river leaves its gorge to cross the Adelaide Plains.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Postcards - Previous Feature: Warriparinga: City of Marion )〕 Other important Kaurna campsites were located south of the Sturt-Patawalonga confluence, and at Chambers Gully in Coromandel Valley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Residents - Sturt River - Information Regarding ) 〕 The British named the river after the explorer Charles Sturt.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Captain Charles Sturt )〕 In the early days of British settlement, the new colony appointed Colonel William Light as Surveyor General; one of his tasks was to find a suitable location for the colony's capital. Light's first rough sketch, made in 1836, placed the city on the Sturt River, where the suburb of Marion is now located.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History South Australia - Adelaide Park Lands public nomination 2004 - Chronology 3 )〕 He later changed his plans to locate the city on the River Torrens instead. The river is lined with many buildings of historic and cultural value, especially in the Coromandel Valley and Craigburn Farm areas, which mostly date back to the 1850s. The first bridge to be built over the river is Horner's Bridge, constructed in 1866 in Coromandel Valley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Horner's Bridge over the Sturt River... Photo Gallery by Yvonne )〕 In 1879, flood mitigation works were carried out to prevent damage to properties in Glenelg, and to the Morphettville Racecourse. A trapezoidal concrete channel was constructed to line the river from Sturt Road to the Patawalonga Basin in 1965. A flood control dam was also constructed in 1965, in the part of the Sturt Gorge Recreation Park which falls in Flagstaff Hill.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sturt River, Adelaide」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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