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.

Providing housing for ‘industrious and deserving’ workers since 1899

Cottages built for workers through a bequest from businessman and philanthropist Sir Thomas Elder

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

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.

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

Works by the renowned and unpretentious artist John Dowie enhance many public places

George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide, drowned on 10 May after being thrown into the River Torrens. Rumours spread that officers from the vice squad engaged in ‘poofter bashing’ had killed Duncan.

Despite an inauspicious start as a dumping ground for waste, the East Parklands gradually developed as an attractive centre for recreation in the city. 

Celebrated at its opening in 1882, and again a century later, the rotunda remains a focus point for events in Elder Park.

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

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

An eclectic mix since foundation, Hindley Street has seen it all

Lady Bonython grew from ‘Baby Mayoress’ into a community worker and supporter of numerous charities, especially those benefiting women and children

The John Jefferson Bray Memorial Fountain commemorates the life of a senior judge, scholar and poet

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

The Museum of Economic Botany features exhibits outlining the practical and economic use of plant materials. 

'Popeye the Sailor' was a popular cartoon at the cinema in the 1930s when Gordon Watts introduced a tourist pleasure craft on the River Torrens

Adelaide’s very first Gay Pride March took place on Saturday 15 September 1973. 

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 life size sculpture of Roy 'Mo' Rene on Hindley Street invites intimacy with his casual pose and expression of comic amusement. 

Artist Samuel Thomas Gill produced a lively visual record of early South Australia.

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

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.