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Adelaide Steamship Company
The Adelaide Steamship Company was Australia’s largest shipping company and one of South Australia’s most successful business ventures.
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Ash Wednesday
The bushfires of 16 February 1983 had a devastating impact on many South Australians.
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Barque South Australian
A former mail transport and Royal Navy vessel, the barque South Australian was integral to the early colonisation of South…
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Bushrangers
No bushrangers to threaten the utopian dream, but criminal activity led to Australia’s first police force
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Fishing
Especially in coastal and riverine areas, fishing has always played an important role in the cultural, material and social lives…
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Fleurieu Peninsula
From prehistoric times through the Aboriginal Dreaming to a modern region popular for settlement, farming, tourism and recreation.
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Gas
Domestic oil and gas exploration and discoveries have been vital for South Australia’s development
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HMCS Protector
Built between 1882 and 1884, South Australia’s only colonial warship was a veteran of three major conflicts and still exists today as…
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Invisible Farmer SA Collection
The Invisible Farmer collection is created from contributions from community museums, history groups and individuals throughout South Australia. It consists…
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Kaurna language (Kaurna warra)
Kaurna, the original language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains, is once again being heard.
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Kaurna People
The original people of the Adelaide Plains are still here – and once again speaking the Kaurna language.
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Maritime Exploration
The rapid European maritime exploration of South Australia takes place in the early 19th century
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Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders, British explorer, charter of South Australia’s coast and namesake of Flinders University
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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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Nicolas Thomas Baudin
French cartographer, Nicolas Thomas Baudin surveyed and named much of South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island coastal areas.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy lectured and wrote on the wine business and olive growing, was a member of the Phylloxera Board, Wine…