An austere but tolerant Lutheran migrant leader, August Kavel contributed significantly to South Australia’s rich legacy of German culture.

A soldier and explorer, Captain Charles Sturt was first to chart the River Murray.

The second oldest remaining church in Adelaide, Scots Church is still in use today.

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.

This cup was presented to the Art Gallery of South Australia by Queen Mary as part of Empire-wide celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of George V in 1935.

Relief for the poor, the pregnant and the unemployed was a theme from the colony’s commencement

A physician by training, Charles Everard became a landholder, a farmer and a prominent colonist.

Now lost, the Exhibition Building once dominated North Terrace

The first South Australian Freemasons lodge formed in England, before the colony of South Australia was settled. 

This merchant, banker, landowner and philanthropist was generous but shrewd, and often tagged with the phrase ‘philanthropy plus ten per cent’.

The University of Adelaide is a commanding presence on North Terrace. It began in 1874 when South Australia was less than 40 years old, with a population of about 200,000 people.

One of Adelaide’s oldest buildings, Government House welcomes thousands of visitors each year

Holy Trinity Church is the earliest surviving Anglican Church building in South Australia, and one of Adelaide’s oldest standing structures.

The oldest of North Terrace’s cultural buildings

An eclectic selection of significant contributors to South Australia to 1986

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

A statue to honour Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia, was a long time coming in Adelaide

North Terrace east is Adelaide’s premier cultural boulevard

Stretching from Adelaide’s first survey point to Parliament House, the character of this part of North Terrace continues to evolve

The site of countless debates, Old Parliament House dates from 1855

Richard Bowyer Smith and his brother Clarence could both rightfully claim distinction as the inventors of the stump-jump plough. 

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

By turns architect, engineer, surveyor and parliamentarian, Sir George Kingston was also Speaker of the House of Assembly for almost two decades.

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

The mounted trooper reining in his horse commemorates South Australians who served in the South African War (1899-1902).

Survey chain used by Isaac Guley in surveying the City of Adelaide with Colonel Light.

Founder of the Congregational Church in South Australia, Thomas Stow was a strenuous minister and a dedicated opponent of state aid to religion.