Adelaide Glaciarium

Adelaide Glaciarium
Ice Palace Skating Rink
The entrance tower as seen in 1928 from Hindley Street Adelaide SA.
State Library of South Australia B 4785
Map
Location91 Hindley Street,
Adelaide, 5000
Capacity580
Surface35.05 metres (115 ft) ×
25.6 metres (84 ft)
Opened6 September 1904

The Adelaide Glaciarium (also known as Ice Palace Skating Rink), located at 89–91 Hindley Street in the city of Adelaide, South Australia, was the first indoor ice-skating facility built in Australia. It is also the location of the first "hockey on the ice" match in the country, which was an adaptation of roller polo for the ice using ice skates. Contemporary ice hockey was never played at this venue but this ice skating rink, the country's first, provided the "test bed" facility for its successor, the Melbourne Glaciarium, the birthplace of ice hockey in Australia.

In 1907 it became the Olympia Roller Skating Rink, and in December 1908 it was converted into a picture theatre, West's Olympia, by cinema chain owner T. J. West. This was the first permanent cinema in Adelaide, in 1939 replaced by a new building West's Theatre.