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Museums Attractions In South Australia

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South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the most highly centralised of any state in Australia, with more than 75 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, and with the Northern Territory; it...
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Museums Attractions In South Australia

  • 1. The Adelaide Planetarium Mawson Lakes
    The University of South Australia is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network of universities, and is the largest university in South Australia with almost 32,000 students. The university was founded in its current form in 1991 with the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology and College of Advanced Education , combining more than 150 years of teaching and research history. The legislation to establish and name the new University of South Australia was introduced by the Hon Mike Rann MP, Minister of Employment and Further Education. Under the University's Act, its original mission was to preserve, extend and disseminate knowledge through teaching, research, scholarship and consultanc...
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  • 2. Adelaide Gaol Thebarton
    Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2017, Adelaide had an estimated resident population of 1,333,927. Adelaide is home to more than 75 percent of the South Australian population, making it the most centralised population of any state in Australia. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province ...
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  • 4. Woomera Museum Woomera
    Woomera, officially Woomera Village, is a town located in the Far North region of South Australia in Australia, approximately 446 kilometres north of Adelaide. In common usage, Woomera also refers to the wider RAAF Woomera Range Complex , a large Australian Defence Force aerospace and systems testing range covering an area of approximately 122,000 square kilometres operated by the Royal Australian Air Force. Woomera township is part of RAAF Base Woomera which, along with the Woomera Test Range , forms the larger entity known as the Woomera Range Complex , promulgated by Chief of Air Force in June 2014. As at the 2016 census the Woomera Village had a population of 146, and its usual population varies between 150 to 200 people, yet the village can provide accommodation and services for up to...
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  • 5. Parndana Soldier Settlement Museum Parndana
    Parndana is a small town on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, located 40 km west of Kingscote, the island's largest town.
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  • 6. South Australian Maritime Museum Port Adelaide
    The South Australian Maritime Museum is a state government museum, part of the History Trust of South Australia. The Museum opened in 1986 in a collection of historic buildings in the heart of Port Adelaide, South Australia’s first heritage precinct.
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  • 8. South Australian Aviation Museum Port Adelaide
    The South Australian Aviation Museum displays aircraft, aircraft engines and rockets of relevance to South Australia, and the history of aviation and the aerospace industry in Australia. It is located in Port Adelaide, South Australia.
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  • 9. Classic Jets Fighter Museum Salisbury
    Parafield Airport is on the edge of the residential suburb of Parafield, South Australia, 18 km north of the Adelaide city centre and adjacent to the Mawson Lakes campus of the University of South Australia. It is Adelaide's second airport and the fifth busiest airport in Australia by aircraft movements. Although owned by the Government of Australia, the airport is leased to and managed independently by Parafield Airport Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Adelaide Airport Limited.Parafield was Adelaide's only civil airport until Adelaide Airport was opened in February 1955 and is currently used for small aircraft, pilot training and recreational aviation. The airport is home to the Parafield Aviation campus of TAFE South Australia and to the University of South Australia Aviation Academy. ...
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  • 12. Burra Railway Station Burra
    Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia. It lies east of the Clare Valley in the Bald Hills range, part of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, and on Burra Creek. The town began as a single company mining township that, by 1851, was a set of townships collectively known as The Burra. The Burra mines supplied 89% of South Australia's and 5% of the world's copper for 15 years, and the settlement has been credited with saving the economy of the struggling new colony of South Australia. The Burra Burra Copper Mine was established in 1848 mining the copper deposit discovered in 1845. Miners and townspeople migrated to Burra primarily from Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Germany. The mine first closed in 1877, briefly opened again early in the 20th cen...
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  • 13. Migration Museum Adelaide
    The Migration Museum is a social history museum located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is one of the three museums operated by the History Trust of South Australia. It deals with the immigration and settlement history of South Australia, and maintains both a permanent and a rotating collection of works. Founded as an initiative of the State government in 1983, and with the museum opening in 1986, the Migration Museum in Adelaide is the oldest museum of its kind in Australia. The museum aims to promote cultural diversity and multiculturalism, which they define as including aspects of ethnicity, class, gender, age and region.The site is located on Kintore Avenue between the State Library of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide, in a complex of early c...
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  • 15. Burra Regional Art Gallery Burra
    Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia. It lies east of the Clare Valley in the Bald Hills range, part of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, and on Burra Creek. The town began as a single company mining township that, by 1851, was a set of townships collectively known as The Burra. The Burra mines supplied 89% of South Australia's and 5% of the world's copper for 15 years, and the settlement has been credited with saving the economy of the struggling new colony of South Australia. The Burra Burra Copper Mine was established in 1848 mining the copper deposit discovered in 1845. Miners and townspeople migrated to Burra primarily from Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Germany. The mine first closed in 1877, briefly opened again early in the 20th cen...
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