South Australia Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About South Australia
South Australia's colonial history is a bit of a weird and unusual one, because unlike all other states of Australia, it was never a convict settlement, and all early European residents were free settlers, not convicts. Similarly,terra nulliuswas not claimed in South Australia, but it was recognised from the start that Aboriginal people had lived in South Australia for a long time. It was first split off from New South Wales and proclaimed a colony in 1834. Besides Great Britain, the white settlers in South Australia also hailed from many other parts of Europe, most notably Ireland, Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, Serbia and Albania. South Australia covers a large territory in the lower middle part of the country, with a small population of 1.7 million. Of that population, around 80% live
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