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Colonel William Light 1786 - 1839
Site Information
Colonel Light Overview (Prints 5 pages)
- Early Life
- Arrival in South Australia
- Search For A Harbour
- Holdfast Bay Decision
- Chooses The Harbour
- Decides the City Location
- His Career In SA
- Land Surveys
Light's Instructions - Index to Nos. 1 - 25 (Prints 7 pages)
Light's Landing - The Naming of Holdfast Bay (Prints 2 pages)
Site of Adelaide (Prints 3 pages)
- Factors Influencing Light's Decision
- The Vote for Light's Adelaide Site
Adelaide Park Lands (Prints 2 pages)
- The Laying Out of The Adelaide Park Lands
- Robert Gouger On Adelaide & the Park Lands
Light's Legacy (Prints 2 pages)
- Colonel Light. His Death & Burial 1839
- His First Monument 1843
- 2nd Monument Light Square 1905
- His Statue Victoria Square Unveiled
- Statue Moved to Montefiore Hill 1938
- Other Commemorations to Col. Light
Quotable Quotes (Prints 2 pages)
IMAGES - Sources
- Light's portrait (eliptical scan from photo of Light's self portrait)
- adaptation from Light's Survey of the East Coast of Gulf St. Vincent
(Copies of Light's original surveys can be viewed at the Royal Geographical Society SA Inc Library)
- Sketch of Adelaide Position adapted from C. Fenner Geography of SA
Adelaide Site Headpiece - scan selection from the original painting by Colonel Light (Original painting in The Art Gallery of S.A.)
- Light's Plan of Adelaide (Gavin Walkley in the Proceedings of The RGSSA)
Copies of the original of this and of Light's first plan can be viewed at the RGSSA Library)
- Sketch of Light's First Monument (Adelaide Illustrated News 1877)
- Sketch of Light's Statue (K. Crilly copyright free if acknowledged)
Site last updated 4 March 2005
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