SA Resources

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As the Cocky Flies
http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/distance.jsp

As the Cocky Flies will calculate the distance between two places in Australia. It uses the Gazetted Australian Place Names list.

Atlas of South Australia 1986 - Exploration
http://www.atlas.sa.gov.au/Atlas1986/1SETTLEMENT/6EXPLORATION.html
This page published by the 1988 Atlas of South Australia lists the maritime explorers 1627-1803 and land explorers1819-1901 of South Australia, with a brief description of what was discovered. A map on a linked page shows the routes.

Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/aacg/index.htm
With over 3,000 items on display in an accessible, interactive setting, the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery showcases the largest collection of Australian Aboriginal artefacts and archival material.

Cleland Wildlife Park
http://www.cleland.sa.gov.au/main.htm
Australia's unique range of marsupials, reptiles, and birds is unsurpassed on any continent on earth. Koalas, kangaroos, wombats, emus, parrots, and goannas to name a few, have all adapted brilliantly to their Australian environment over millions of years. At Cleland Wildlife Park, visitors are encouraged to mingle with, observe, pat, feed, and learn about hundreds of southern Australian native animals. This site provides a virtual park tour, a wildlife quiz, a download library of pictures, sounds and educational resources, news updates and general information. 

Collections and Resources - State Library of South Australia
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/library/collres/collres.htm
This site gives access to the Bradman Collection, the Pictorial Collections, Wine Literature of the World, the Bray Reference Library, and a Family History service, among other sites. These linked sites contain documents and digitised photographs from collections donated to the library. 

Department for Environment and Heritage, Government of South Australia
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/
The Department for Environment and Heritage internet site explains the State's environmental assets and issues as well as the environmental challenges which are being tackled by the South Australian State Government including pollution prevention, flora and fauna conservation and heritage preservation. It also features current press releases and a calendar of events for public interest. Includes  environment, biodiversity, botanic gardens, South Australian coast, South Australian marine, EPA, SA EPA, land heritage, marine heritage, building heritage, maps, aerial maps, cadastral, parks, parksweb, Australian wildlife, sustainability, government, press releases, calendar of events, environment reporting.

EdNA Theme Page - Matthew Flinders 
http://www.edna.edu.au/schools/themes/flinders.html
List of selected resources that will help you understand the achievements of Mathew Flinders and other explorers.

Flinders Ranges Research
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~fliranre/home.htm
Flinders Ranges Research provides historical information, research services and publications on South Australian History.

History of Photography in South Australia
http://users.chariot.net.au/~rjnoye/
History of Photography in South Australia from 1845 to 1915: Clare, Burra, photography, history, daguerreotype, daguerreotypists, dry plate, wet plate, magic lantern, Flinders Ranges, mosaic.

History Trust of South Australia
http://www.history.sa.gov.au/
The History Trust manages museums and encourages the community to enjoy, understand, preserve and benefit from South Australia's rich and distinctive history

Mortlock Library South Australiana Database
http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:1084/search/
Photographs and other pictorial material from the Mortlock Library's collections, and references to articles and other citations from selected South Australian published material held in the Library. Searches can be conducted using keywords such as a place name or photographer's name. 

Ngurunderi - An Aboriginal Dreaming
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/ngurunderi/nghome.htm
This online exhibition is about the Ngarrindjeri, the Aboriginal people of the Lower Murray River, Lakes and Coorong. In the Dreaming, the ancestral hero, Ngurunderi, travelled the Ngarrindjeri lands ...

Place Names
http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
Place names around Australia. The search utility searches the Gazetteer of Australia 2001, which is a compilation of over 274,000 geographic names in Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australia. As well as being fully updated by the Commonwealth and State Government authorities, the gazetteer now includes many extra, unofficial Homestead names added by Geoscience Australia.
The search gives you not only the place name but details about buildings like schools - gives exact latitude & longitude

Postcards Online 
http://www.postcards.sa.com.au/ 

This web site contains a tourism and lifestyle snapshot of South Australia, presented by Adelaide's Channel Nine, generated by the television programme Post Cards. Information is categorised both by region and alphabetically according to location. Each page contains information and photos of the location and further Internet links. Other features of the site are "postcard tours" which can be printed, thematic pages and a list of current tourist events. 

Significant Ships in South Australia's History
http://www.picknowl.com.au/homepages/malcolm/shippass.htm
A glimpse of South Australian maritime history, compiled by R T Sexton for the SA Maritime Museum.

South Australia. Wine regions, adventure, wildlife, maps and history of South Australia.
http://www.southoz.com/
Welcome to South Australia. Australia's fourth largest state offers all those experiences synonymous with Australia in one very convenient and accessible area. This site is from the Tourist Commission: Adelaide, Adelaide Hills,| Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Eyre Peninsula, Fleurieu Peninsula,  Flinders Ranges & Outback,  Kangaroo Island,  River Murray, and South East

South Australia Central
http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/
The South Australian Government web site is an easy to use point of access to South Australian information and services on the Internet. It brings together community, commercial and Government content from South Australia for the world community. It is one of the outcomes of the South Australian Government's IT2000 strategy and Online Services initiative. 

South Australian Firsts
http://history.sacentral.sa.gov.au/firsts.htm
South Australian inventions, and achievements.  Links also to SA Facts, Regions, People and Memorials

South Australian Museum
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/
The role of the South Australian Museum is to increase knowledge and understanding of our natural and cultural heritage; to serve our community by acquiring, preserving, interpreting and presenting to the community, material evidence concerning people and nature; and to provide opportunities for study, education and enjoyment. This website represents another face of the Museum. This web site is not intended to be a digital replication of the physical Museum, but an evolving space from where other reactions and interactions may be explored.

updated 21 March 2003