One of South Australia's earliest buildings and home to over 300 000 people from 1841 to 1988, Adelaide Gaol is one of Australia's longest operating prisons.

The classically styled freestone Adelaide General Post Office was constructed in the late nineteenth century and housed both the post and telegraph offices which connected Australia with the world

The person responsible for the greening of Adelaide in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Built in 1896, Beehive Corner with its Neo-Gothic facade has been a famous meeting spot since the early 20th century.

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

The powerful sculpture of Catherine Helen Spence in Light Square, Adelaide celebrates the life and work of a formidable South Australian.

It started in a tent and grew – meals, clothes, accommodation and recreation for servicemen on the move.

On the prominent corner of King William Street and Hindley Street, the Colonial Mutual Life (CML) Building is one of Adelaide’s most iconic structures.

Colonel William Light’s grave remains in Light Square, while Light's Monument there has been replaced and embellished over time

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

Care for migrants, the unemployed and the destitute was evident from South Australia’s foundation days.

Paradoxically, the only parts of South Australia to experience occasional serious disruption of by flooding are the far distant sparsely populated deserts around Lake Eyre

In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta

The J Reedman Memorial Drinking Fountain was erected in Creswell Gardens on 7 September 1929. It is made of Angaston marble and signifies the achievements of John Cole Reedman, an Australian sports legend.

Montefiore Hill, overlooking the city planned by Colonel William Light, was named after South Australian Colonization Commissioner Jacob Montefiore

Pirltawardli, (possum home) is the site of the first Christian mission to Aboriginal people in South Australia.

Opening in 1933, inheriting the place of a cinema which had existed on the spot since 1910, the Rex Theatre was a popular cinema on Rundle Street that was demolished in 1961.

A botanist, horticulturist and the director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Richard Schomburgk was honoured locally as 'the people’s pet'. 

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

The iconic figure of of 'Simpson and his Donkey' looks over War Memorial Drive from the Angas Garden.

The Sir Ross Smith Memorial commemorates the achievements of aviator Sir Ross Smith and the first flight from England to Australia. 

A pastoralist, philanthropist and businessman, Elder supported numerous outback expeditions and Adelaide institutions.

The South Australian Tourism Commission, established in 1993, focuses on marketing South Australia as a tourist destination to interstate and overseas markets.

An outstanding all-round sportsman was provided with the rare honour of being memorialised during his lifetime

Remembering the role of horses in war.

A temporary camping ground for the early European settlers, the West Parklands developed to host most notably a cemetery and a school.

The Women's Work Depot sprang out of a First World War business, theTrench Comforts Shop, reforming in 1920 to sell goods made by women.