Places to visit in South Australia, Australia
11 places to visit in South Australia, Australia, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Naracoorte Caves National Park, Adelaide Oval, Barossa Valley and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your South Australia volume.
1 UNESCO World Heritage site · 3 Famous places to visit · 7 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in South Australia (1)
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Naracoorte Caves National Park
A park in the south-east of South Australia whose caves hold an extensive fossil record, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1994 together with Riversleigh. Of its 28 known caves only four are open to the public, the rest kept for research and protection.
Famous places to visit in South Australia (3)
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Adelaide Oval
A cricket and Australian rules football ground in the park lands of North Adelaide, home to the Adelaide Crows, Port Adelaide and the South Australian cricket team. Its old heritage scoreboard and the view of St Peter's Cathedral beyond the stands are part of its charm.
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Barossa Valley
A valley formed by the North Para River, 60 kilometres north-east of Adelaide and one of Australia's best-known wine regions. Settlers from Silesia shaped its villages and food in the 19th century, and it is known above all for its old-vine Shiraz.
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Kangaroo Island
Australia's third-largest island, 112 kilometres south-west of Adelaide and reached by ferry across Backstairs Passage. It is known for wildlife seen in the open, sea lions, kangaroos, koalas and seabirds, along with a wild coastline and local produce.
Hidden gems in South Australia (7)
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Adelaide Botanic Garden
A 51-hectare garden at the north-east corner of the Adelaide city centre, opened to the public in 1857. Its glasshouses include a Victorian palm house and the curved Bicentennial Conservatory, which holds a tropical rainforest.
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Adelaide Central Market
One of the oldest markets in Australia, a covered hall in the centre of Adelaide with stalls of fruit and vegetables, meat, seafood, cheese, bread and small goods. More than 8.5 million visits a year make it one of the busiest places in the city.
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Art Gallery of South Australia
The state's leading art museum, founded in 1881 as the National Gallery of South Australia and set along North Terrace in Adelaide. With almost 45,000 works it holds the second largest state art collection in Australia.
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Flinders Chase National Park
A national park at the west end of Kangaroo Island, a sanctuary for endangered species and the second national park declared in South Australia. Its best-known sights are Remarkable Rocks, granite boulders shaped by wind on a dome above the sea, and Admirals Arch, a rock arch hollowed out by the sea.
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Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park
A park of 95,000 hectares in the northern Flinders Ranges, about 430 kilometres north of Adelaide between Hawker and Blinman. Wilpena Pound is its centrepiece, alongside the Heysen Range and the Brachina and Bunyeroo gorges, and the Heysen Trail passes through.
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South Australian Museum
A natural history museum on North Terrace in Adelaide, founded in 1856, with the largest collection of Australian Aboriginal cultural material in the world. Its galleries also hold minerals, fossils and objects from early Antarctic expeditions by South Australian explorers.
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Wilpena Pound
A vast natural amphitheatre of mountains in the heart of the Ikara-Flinders Ranges, 429 kilometres north of Adelaide. Its ring of ridges encloses a broad basin, which walkers can enter on foot or see whole from a scenic flight.
Collecting in South Australia
What are the best places to visit in South Australia?
LOQAH lists 11 places in South Australia. The best known include Naracoorte Caves National Park, Adelaide Oval, Barossa Valley, Kangaroo Island and Adelaide Botanic Garden. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in South Australia?
11, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in South Australia?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in South Australia before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose South Australia and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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