Heritage greetings through photos

In recent years, amateur and professional photographers have provided us with great gifts in the form of heritage snaps.

These 105 photos cover the breadth of our great State, from Mount Gambier’s Blue Lake in the south, to Cordillo Downs in the far north of South Australia.

They also showcase a wonderful journey through time. The Sturt Gorge Glaciation site shows evidence of glaciation (ice age) 890 million years ago, while the very youthful Bicentennial Conservatory in the Adelaide Botanic Garden is only 35 years old.

Enjoy these photos of heritage places near the sea, under the sea and photos of built and natural heritage on the land.

And perhaps plan a visit for your next holiday!

Click on the photos below to bring it up on your screen. Each photo also has a descriptive caption.

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Pisces Star shipwreck at Carpenter Rocks. Under both State and Commonwealth legislation, all wrecks and associated articles, become ‘historic’ and are protected when they are 75 years old. Photo by Brandon Creighton (from Sea Pixels 2017). On Boandik Country.

Acknowledgement of Country

The state government acknowledges Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the lands and waters we live and work upon and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and respect the deep spiritual connection and the relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to Country.

We work in partnership with the First Peoples of South Australia and support their Nations to take a leading role in caring for their Country.