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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…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s
John Ridley

John Ridley was born on 26th May 1806 at West Boldon, Durham, England, the son of flourmiller John Ridley and…

1840s, 1850s
Julian Edmund Tenison Woods

This creative priest who has left an enduring legacy to education, to science and to the history of the Catholic…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s
Kangaroo Island

This island’s uniqueness is its major feature – there is nowhere else quite like it
Land

Aboriginal people were conservative and conservationist land managers; European settlers and their descendants expected land to be the backbone of society…

Aboriginal Country pre-contact, early nineteenth century, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Landforms and landscape

Many notable South Australian landscape features persist as ancient relics of past eras, having survived the influence of underlying geological…
Lawrence Allen Wells, OBE

Lawrence Allen Wells was born on 30th April 1860 at Yallum Station, near Penola, South Australia, the son of squatter…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Life of Stars

Lindy Lee’s stainless steel sculpture is perforated with over 80, 000 individual holes.

public art

2010s, early twenty–first century
Margaret Preston

Margaret Rose Preston was born on 29th April 1875 at Port Adelaide, South Australia, the daughter of marine engineer David…

1870s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Market Gardens and Orchards

South Australian market gardens, nurseries, viticulture industry and orchardists have always required a creative use of water resources in cultivating…
Mid North

As the Mid North has developed and prospered in accordance with the opportunities and restraints of transport and technology, so…

early nineteenth century, early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
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…

public art

2010s, Aboriginal Country pre-contact, early twenty–first century
Norman William Jolly

Norman Jolly was born on August 5th 1882 at Mintaro, South Australia, the son of storekeeper Henry Jolly and his…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Parklands

An ongoing source of enjoyment and controversy, the parklands are a unique and remarkably intact feature of Adelaide
Peter Waite

Peter Waite was born on 9th May 1834 at Pitcairn, near Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the son of farmer James Waite…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s
Port Adelaide Lighthouse

Installed in the 1860s as Port Adelaide’s first fixed navigational beacon, and later used at South Neptune Island, the Port…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Prisons

Although South Australia was proclaimed a free settlement, colonial officials soon found they needed a gaol to house lawbreakers.

correction, crime, criminal, Gaol, prisoner, yatala

early nineteenth century, early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Richard Bowyer Smith

Richard Bowyer Smith was born in London, England, in 1837, the son of carpenter Owen Smith and his wife Mary…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s
Richard Moritz Schomburgk

Richard Schomburgk was born on 5th October 1811 in Freyburg, Saxony, the son of Johann Friedrich Ludwig Schomburgk, an assistant…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
River Murray

The River Murray has been central to South Australia’s existence. Named in 1830 by Charles Sturt after Sir George Murray,…

early nineteenth century, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
River Torrens

The River Torrens has dominated the development of Adelaide and its metropolis, often in subtle or little recognised ways

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Sir Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson was a colossus of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration who carried the banner of scientific research…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Edward Stirling, CMG

Edward Charles Stirling was a ‘Renaissance man’ who possessed a profound interest in and knowledge of many topics. He trained…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Sir Hans Heysen, OBE

Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 8th October 1877, the son of Louis Heinrich Wilhelm…

1960s, early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir John Cleland, CBE

John Burton Cleland was born in Norwood, South Australia, on 22nd June 1878, the son of medical practitioner William Lennox…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Sidney Kidman

Sidney Kidman was born near Athelstone, South Australia, on 9th May 1857, the son of farmer George Kidman and his…

early twentieth century, late nineteenth century
Target Practice

Hossein Valamenesh reworked existing bricks and space in order to create this inlaid piece.

1980s, late twentieth century
Three Rivers Fountain

The Three Rivers fountain in Victoria Square commemorates the Royal Visit in 1963

fountain

fountain, heron, ibis, river, sculpture, swan

1960s, 2010s
Tom Kruse

Esmond Gerald ‘Tom’ Kruse was an outback transport operator. Tom began driving the Birdsville Track Mail Run for Harry Ding…

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s
Walter Gill

When Walter Gill retired in 1923 after thirty-three years as South Australia’s third Conservator of Forests, he encapsulated his life…

early twentieth century, late nineteenth century

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Alexander Hore-Ruthven

Alexander Hore-Ruthven

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Andrew Tennant

Andrew Tennant

Andrew Tennant (1835–1913) was the son of a Scottish shepherd who had come to South Australia as an assisted migrant […]

Catherine Helen Spence

Catherine Helen Spence

In October 1905, at a public gathering in Adelaide to celebrate Catherine Spence’s eightieth birthday, South Australia’s Chief Justice, Sir […]

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