Light's Vision
1906
landscape
William Light was a British military officer and colonial administrator. He was the first Surveyor-General of the new British Province of South Australia, known for choosing the site of the colony's capital, Adelaide, and for designing…
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- 1906
William Birnie Rhind
- 1938
The statue stood at the northern end of Victoria Square from 1906 until 1938, when it was moved to Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide at the suggestion of the Pioneers' Association of South Australia to mark the centenary of Light's death.…
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