Detourmap
Places worth the detour in South Australia
Detourmap lists 48 places in South Australia, Australia, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre. 32 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 48
- Oldest
- Mount Remarkable National Park 1952
- Little known
- 32 of 48
- Share of Australia
- 6%
South Australia 48
All 48, best known first.
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7.Lake Alexandrina
Nature · Notable
Estuarine lagoon in South Australia, forming part of the Murray River mouth
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16.Olympic Dam mine
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
Poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia
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22.Mount Remarkable National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in South Australia
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34.Malkumba-Coongie Lakes National Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
National park in Australia
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35.Great Australian Bight Marine Park
Nature · Hidden gem
Group of marine protected areas in the Great Australian Bight
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37.Cave Garden / Thugi
Nature · Hidden gem
Sinkhole in South Australia, Australia which has been converted to a public garden and park
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38.Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary National Park - Winaityinaityi Pangkara National Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
National park in Australia
Elsewhere in Australia
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in South Australia?
Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre. Endorheic lake in South Australia. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in South Australia?
48: 37 nature & landscapes and 11 archaeological & historic sites. 32 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in South Australia?
Mount Remarkable National Park, dated to 1952. 10 of the 48 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as South Australia here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in South Australia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. South Australia is a first-level division of Australia, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.