Regional Portal - South Australia

Here we will place links to resources and projects pertaining to more specific regions of South Australia. Cultural, historical and industrial as well as tourism and what makes these areas special.

Convention and common use has divided South Australia into a number of regions. These do not always have strict boundaries between them and have no general administrative function or status. Many of them correspond to regions used by various administrative or government agencies, but they do not always have the same boundaries or aggregate in the same way.

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The generally accepted regions are:

Adelaide Plains

(the northern part is sometimes known as the Lower North)

Adelaide Hills/Mount Lofty Ranges

Barossa Valley

• Nuriootpa
• Tanunda
  • The Barossa Cookery Book - Geni Project
• Angaston
• Eden Valley
• Mount Pleasant
• Springton
• Williamstown
• Lyndoch
• Greenock

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Eyre Peninsula or Eyre Western Region

Eyre Western consists of land on the Eyre Peninsula which is part of a local government area, land in the west of the state on the coastline between Eyre Peninsula and the border with Western Australia including the Maralinga Tjarutja lands, all of the islands within the Great Australian Bight and those islands adjoining the Eyre Peninsula coastline.

• District Council of Ceduna
• District Council of Cleve
• District Council of Elliston
• District Council of Franklin Harbour
• District Council of Kimba
• District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula
• City of Port Lincoln
• District Council of Streaky Bay
• District Council of Tumby Bay
• Wudinna District Council
• City of Whyalla

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Far North

Fleurieu Peninsula

• Alexandrina Council
• City of Victor Harbor
• District Council of Yankalilla

Kangaroo Island

• Kangaroo Island Council

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Flinders Ranges

Limestone Coast

(is a name which came into use in the early 21st century, supplanting the names Lower South East and Upper South East)

Mid North and Mid North Towns

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• Burra History and People
  

• Kapunda

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Clare Valley

Murray Mallee

Murraylands

Riverland

Yorke Peninsula

Copper Triangle

Research Links

• Kangaroo Island Pioneers Association
• The First 8 Ships by KIPA’s David Wilson
• Who Were the 1836ers
• State Records
• State Library
• Biography Home Page
• Flinders Rangew Research
• Burra History Group
• Burnside Historical Society
• Clare Regional History Group
• Macclesfield history Group
• Prospect Local History Group
• Salisbury & District Historical Society
• Port Adelaide
• Mount Horrocks Historical Society
• Fleurieu Peninsula Family History Group

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Most of the other regional divisions of the state use a combination of these same labels, sometimes grouped, and sometimes with precise boundaries that might be slightly different in each case.