Heritage & History

A historic west-coast town once known as the last of the windjammer ports, now a relaxed fishing and diving base.

A long heritage jetty on the west coast, a favourite for squid, whiting and a stroll over clear water.

A jetty-side museum in Port Victoria telling the story of the windjammer grain ships that made this the last great sailing-ship port.

A small east-coast town with a long salt-harvesting history beside the samphire flats of upper Gulf St Vincent.

Oyster dredges and schoolroom slates by the sea.

A volunteer-run museum in Stansbury's 1878 schoolhouse and teacher's residence, telling the town's story from oyster dredging to farming.

The historic gateway to Innes, where a long jetty and old gypsum-loading relics meet sheltered fishing waters.

A long timber jetty over clear gulf water at the gateway to Innes National Park, once built to ship gypsum and now a quiet spot for fishing and swimming.

Cliff-top views over the old gypsum loading jetty.

A short walk to a clifftop lookout above the historic Stenhouse Bay gypsum jetty at the edge of Innes National Park.

The brick tower that took over from Troubridge Island.

A striking unpainted brick lighthouse on the clifftops west of Edithburgh, first lit in 1980 to replace the old Troubridge Island light.

Penguin and seabird island with a historic lighthouse.

A low sandy island off Edithburgh, home to little penguins, nesting seabirds and a heritage lighthouse and cottages.

Maritime and copper history in the old post office.

A two-storey museum in Wallaroo's historic post office, covering the port's copper-smelting and seafaring past.

A working jetty on the Copper Coast where the SeaSA ferry docks and anglers chase squid and whiting beside grain-port history.

A photogenic green-and-white striped lighthouse guarding the entrance to Wallaroo's historic port.

Where a shepherd's find sparked the Copper Coast.

The stone ruins of the great Wallaroo Mines on Kadina's edge, where copper was discovered in 1859, crowned by the heritage-listed Harvey's Enginehouse.

A towering brick chimney, the last great relic of Wallaroo's copper smelting works that once turned ore from across the Copper Triangle.

An island off Port Victoria ringed by eight shipwrecks forming a renowned maritime heritage dive trail.

A friendly southern crossroads town billed as the gateway to the bottom of Yorke and its surf coast.

A heritage jetty and old lime kiln on the southern east coast, a quiet spot for fishing, snorkelling and watching the sun rise over the gulf.

The last kiln of a forgotten lime-burning port.

A heritage-listed lime kiln above the Wool Bay jetty, the last survivor of an industry that once shipped high-grade lime to build Adelaide.

The salt-lake crossroads of the southern Yorke.

The service hub of the southern Yorke Peninsula, laid out in 1872 among more than 200 salt lakes that once supported a thriving salt-harvesting industry.

South Australia's most intact 19th-century shipwreck.

The 1867 wreck of the barque Zanoni lies in 18 metres of water off Ardrossan - the most intact 19th-century shipwreck in South Australia, protected by an exclusion zone.