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John McDouall Stuart
On 26th November 1862 ten exhausted, gaunt and ragged men, on their limping, emaciated horses, arrived at a remote stock…
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John Ridley
John Ridley was born on 26th May 1806 at West Boldon, Durham, England, the son of flourmiller John Ridley and…
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Julian Edmund Tenison Woods
This creative priest who has left an enduring legacy to education, to science and to the history of the Catholic…
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Kangaroo Island
This island’s uniqueness is its major feature – there is nowhere else quite like it
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Land
Aboriginal people were conservative and conservationist land managers; European settlers and their descendants expected land to be the backbone of society…
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Landforms and landscape
Many notable South Australian landscape features persist as ancient relics of past eras, having survived the influence of underlying geological…
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Life of Stars
Lindy Lee’s stainless steel sculpture is perforated with over 80, 000 individual holes.
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Margaret Preston
Margaret Rose Preston was born on 29th April 1875 at Port Adelaide, South Australia, the daughter of marine engineer David…
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Market Gardens and Orchards
South Australian market gardens, nurseries, viticulture industry and orchardists have always required a creative use of water resources in cultivating…
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Mid North
As the Mid North has developed and prospered in accordance with the opportunities and restraints of transport and technology, so…
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Ngadlu Padninthi Kamangka (We Walk Together) mural
Narisha Cash’s mural acknowledges and celebrates the Kaurna people as the traditional owners and custodians of Adelaide and the Adelaide…
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Norman William Jolly
Norman Jolly was born on August 5th 1882 at Mintaro, South Australia, the son of storekeeper Henry Jolly and his…
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Parklands
An ongoing source of enjoyment and controversy, the parklands are a unique and remarkably intact feature of Adelaide
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Prisons
Although South Australia was proclaimed a free settlement, colonial officials soon found they needed a gaol to house lawbreakers.
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River Murray
The River Murray has been central to South Australia’s existence. Named in 1830 by Charles Sturt after Sir George Murray,…
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Sir Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson was a colossus of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration who carried the banner of scientific research…
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Sir Hans Heysen, OBE
Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 8th October 1877, the son of Louis Heinrich Wilhelm…
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Target Practice
Hossein Valamenesh reworked existing bricks and space in order to create this inlaid piece.
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Walter Gill
When Walter Gill retired in 1923 after thirty-three years as South Australia’s third Conservator of Forests, he encapsulated his life…