Torrens Island, South Australia Station has been listed on the South Australian Heritage Register since 21 October 1993. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Torrens Island had a population of zero. Torrens Island is located within the federal division of Port Adelaide and the state electoral district of Port Adelaide Since at least 2009, Torrens Island has not been located within a local government area. Torrens Island is linked to the mainland by the Grand Trunkway via a bridge across the North Arm of the Port River to Garden Island and a causeway across Angas Inlet, but as
River Torrens inundated to The Parade, Adelaide to Pirie and Rundle Streets, and many areas west of the city were left in a shallow lake. The river ran deep over the weir near Thorndon Park Reservoir, over the Torrens Lake Weir and over the Morphett Street Bridge. The Underdale (or Holbrooks) Bridge was destroyed, the Torrens Lake weir's bridge damaged, and the Felixstow Bridge over the Fourth Creek washed away. The first European sighting of the river was in November 1836 by an exploration party comprising Lieutenant W.G. Field, John Morphett and George Strickland Kingston. The river was named "The Yatala" by