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    Port Adelaide - Nomenclature of Port Adelaide

    An article in the Advertiser on 3 December 1927, page 14c by N.A. Webb says, inter alia, that its Aboriginal name yertabulti means "the sleepy hollow" - literally, "the land asleep".