Torrens Island the site at different times; the surviving Torrens Island Quarantine Station is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. Tours of the heritage-listed Quarantine Station are conducted by the South Australian Maritime Museum. The Torrens Island Internment Camp was a World War I detention camp which held up to 400 men of German or Austro-Hungarian background between 9 October 1914 and 16 August 1915. There are two power stations on Torrens Island: A proposed third station known as the Barker Inlet Power Station was announced in 2017 with construction commenced in the third quarter of the year with the aim
East Torrens Messenger East Torrens Messenger East Torrens Messenger is a weekly suburban newspaper in Adelaide, part of the Messenger Newspapers group. The "East Torrens"' area is bounded by Hackney Road to the west, the River Torrens Valley to the north, Magill Road to the south and the Athelstone foothills in the east. The newspaper generally reports on events of interest in its distribution area, including the suburbs of Payneham, Magill, Athelstone and Paradise. It also covers the City of Campbelltown and City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. It has a circulation of 33,123 and a readership of 44,000. The "Payneham Messenger"