South Australia’s first premier was born at sea off the Cape of Good Hope and educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 

Leaning forward and shielding his eyes from the sun, this bronze figure of Sturt looks over Victoria Square, not the land he explored

A remarkable and feisty South Australian attorney-general and premier, a father of federation and the first Australian Minster for Trade and Customs is commemorated by this statue

Colonel William Light’s statue on Montefiore Hill pointing towards the centre of Adelaide has come to symbolise the city that Light laid out.

Colonel William Light’s survey marker from 1837 is to be incorporated in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site

Remembered as the founder of the City of Adelaide, Light was South Australia’s first surveyor-general.

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

The statue of inland explorer John McDouall Stuart at the corner of Victoria Square and Flinders Street, Adelaide, commemorates his place in Australian history

Creating and installing King Edward VII’s statute took eight months longer than the period of his reign

One of many around the world, this statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns was unveiled in 1894

A statue of Sir Samuel Way reflects his towering presence in legal, political and cultural circles in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

The sculpture of Elder is at the University of Adelaide, a major beneficiary of his philanthropy

The bronze figure of Sir Walter Watson Hughes by Francis Williamson stands on a massive block of red granite.

Colonial factions struggled over the names to bestow on Adelaide's streets

A startled Venus caused consternation as Adelaide’s first public statue in 1892