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Processed luncheon meat is known as "fritz" in South Australia, whereas in other states it is referred to as devon, stras or polony. Another uniquely South Australian word is "Stobie pole", which is the pole used to support power and telephone lines. It was invented in South Australia by James Stobie in 1924.
South Australian Pidgin English developed around 1820 from the population of Kangaroo Island. At this time Kangaroo Island was a major whaling and sealing center populated by 50 European and Austronesian male whalers and sealers and roughly 100 Aboriginal wives who were mostly kidnapped from Tasmania, Port Lincoln, the Adelaide plains, and the mainland opposite Kangaroo Island.
With approximately a thousand entries, the book took more than twenty years to complete. Published by Angus and Robertson, the dictionary was compiled as two volumes, Volume 1: A–K; and Volume 2: L–Z. The book contains 1,030 biographies of Australians, or people who were closely connected with Australia, who died before the end of 1942.
Steven Marshall, former Premier of South Australia, former Leader of the Liberal Party in South Australia, and member representing the Electoral district of Dunstan; Tony Messner, former Liberal Senator for South Australia and federal Minister for Veterans Affairs; Mark Parnell, former SA Greens member of the Parliament of South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.With a total land area of 984,321 square kilometres (380,048 sq mi), [6] it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which includes some of the most arid parts of the continent, and with 1.8 million people [3] it is the fifth-largest of the states and territories by ...
The town of Hahndorf, with its strong German history and population, reflects South Australia's early European immigration trends. South Australia (state of Australia) has a variety of wine-producing regions, including the popular tourist destination Barossa Valley. A majority of the population is concentrated around the Adelaide metropolitan area.
On 29 August 1834, a couple of weeks after the passing of the South Australia Act 1834, [1] a group led by the Colonial Secretary, Robert Gouger, and solicitor Richard Hanson [2] and a number of prominent colonists, including Ernest Giles, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, John Morphett, Robert Torrens Snr, and John Hindmarsh formed the South Australian Literary Association in Adelphi Chambers, London. [3]
The Adelaide Chronicle (full title: The Adelaide Chronicle, and South Australian Literary Record) was an early publication in Adelaide, the capital of the then province of South Australia. It was published between 1839 (185 years ago) ( 1839 ) and 1842 (182 years ago) ( 1842 ) , when it ceased publication as a result of the economic depression ...