DESTINATION SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Evidence for human activity in South Australia dates back as far as 20,000 years ago with flint mining activity and rock art in the Koonalda Cave on the Nullarbor Plain. Kangaroo Island was inhabited long before the island was cut off by rising sea levels.

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DISCOVER SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Barossa Valley, Coober Pedy, Coorong National Park, Hahndorf, Kangaroo Island, Mannum, Mount Gambier, Murray River, Port Augusta,

DISCOVER ADELAIDE As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Today, Adelaide is noted for its many festivals and sporting events, its food, wine and culture, its long beachfronts, and its large defence and manufacturing sectors ...

ADELAIDE HILLS The Adelaide Hills are part of the Mount Lofty Ranges, east of the city of Adelaide in the state of South Australia. It is unofficially centred on the largest town in the area, Mount Barker, which has a population of around 29,000 and is also one of Australia's fastest growing towns. The Adelaide Hills were amongst the first areas of South Australia to be settled by European settlers ...

BAROSSA VALLEY The Barossa Valley is a major wine-producing region and tourist destination of South Australia, located 60 km northeast of Adelaide. It is the valley formed by the North Para River, and the Barossa Valley Way is the main road through the valley, connecting the main towns on the valley floor of Nuriootpa, Tanunda, Rowland Flat and Lyndoch ...

COOBER PEDY Coober Pedy is a town in northern South Australia, 846 kilometres north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. According to the 2006 census, its population was 1,916 (1,084 males, 832 females, including 268 indigenous Australians). The town is sometimes referred to as the 'opal capital of the world' because of the quantity of precious opals that are mined there ...

COORONG NATIONAL PARK The Coorong is a national park and lagoon ecosystem in South Australia, 156 km southeast of Adelaide. Its name is thought to be a corruption of the local Aboriginal people's word kurangh, meaning 'long neck'; a reference to the shape of the lagoon system. The name is also thought to be from the Aboriginal word Coorang, 'sand dune' ...

DISCOVER HAHNDORF Hahndorf is a small town about 30 minutes drive out of Adelaide, along the South Eastern Freeway (Princes Highway). The town was settled by Lutheran migrants largely from in and around a small village then named "Kay" in Prussia, many of whom were aboard the Zebra. The town is named after Danish Captain Dirk Meinhertz Hahn, who was captain of the Zebra ...

KANGAROO ISLAND Kangaroo Island is Australia's third-largest island after Tasmania and Melville Island. It is 112 kilometres (70 mi) southwest of Adelaide at the entrance of Gulf St Vincent. Kangaroo Island is one of South Australia's most popular tourist attractions, attracting over 140,000 visitors each year ...

DISCOVER MANNUM Mannum is an historic town on the west bank of the Murray River in South Australia, 84 kilometres (52 mi) east of Adelaide. Mannum headquarters the Mid Murray Council, and is situated in both the State Electoral District of Schubert and the federal Division of Barker. The first settlement in the area was in 1840 ...

MOUNT GAMBIER Mount Gambier is the largest regional city in South Australia located approximately 450 kilometres south of the capital Adelaide and just 17 kilometres from the Victorian border. It takes its name from the Mount Gambier, a crater sighted in 1800 by Lieutenant James Grant from the survey brig, HMS Lady Nelson, and named for Lord James Gambier, Admiral of the Fleet ...

MURRAY RIVER Being one of the major river systems in one of the driest continents of Earth, the Murray has significant cultural relevance to Indigenous Australians. According to the peoples of Lake Alexandrina, the Murray was created by the tracks of the Great Ancestor, Ngurunderi, as he pursued Pondi, the Murray Cod ...

PORT AUGUSTA Port Augusta is the fifth most populous city in South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Whyalla and Murray Bridge. It is a seaport and railway junction city located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia and is located at the head of the Spencer Gulf, 322 km north of the state capital. Other major industries include electricity generation ...

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