Heritage & History

Red-cliff town with big gulf views and crab fishing.

A working grain-port town on the east coast, famous for its red cliffs, blue swimmer crabs and panoramic gulf lookout.

Birthplace machinery of the stump-jump plough.

A National Trust museum in the 1907 powerhouse of Clarence Smith's plough factory, celebrating the stump-jump plough that opened the mallee to farming.

Gulf views from the top of the dolomite country.

A lookout south of Ardrossan with sweeping views over the giant open-cut dolomite mine, the red cliffs and Gulf St Vincent across to the Adelaide Hills.

Clifftop light guarding Investigator Strait.

A modern lighthouse on dramatic cliffs at the south-west tip of the peninsula, with sweeping views to Kangaroo Island.

Home of the Red Devil - the world's last Bristol M1C.

A purpose-built memorial in Minlaton housing the Red Devil, the world's only surviving Bristol M1C monoplane, flown across the gulf by WWI ace Harry Butler in 1919.

The Cornish triangle of Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta.

The trio of historic copper towns whose mines, smelters and ports made "Little Cornwall" famous.

Stone engine houses of the copper era.

The surviving Cornish engine houses at Moonta Mines, stone landmarks of the 19th-century copper boom.

Whitewashed 1882 light on the south-west corner.

A heritage 1882 lighthouse marking the corner where Spencer Gulf meets Investigator Strait, framed by quiet beaches.

A historic central farming town whose name means "emu" and "deep water hole", with a classic country pub.

Rusting ribs of a barque wrecked on the beach in 1904.

The skeletal remains of the Norwegian barque Ethel, driven ashore in 1904 and still visible on the beach below the cliffs.

The Stenhouse Bay hub for park passes, maps, surf and fishing intel and Innes history.

The atmospheric ruins of a gypsum-mining town inside Innes, with restored cottages, a heritage walk and lakeside camping.

The peninsula's largest town and Copper Coast hub.

The biggest town on Yorke Peninsula, blending copper-boom heritage with the Farm Shed Museum and a busy main street.

A sprawling community museum in Kadina celebrating Copper Coast farming and Cornish mining life, with the historic Matta House alongside.

The largest of the Copper Triangle towns, with grand stone streetscapes and the Farm Shed Museum.

The Copper Triangle's heritage drive.

A self-guided heritage route linking the three Copper Triangle towns of Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta.

Hilltop "heart of Yorke Peninsula" market town.

A planned hilltop town at the centre of the peninsula, with heritage streetscapes, a museum and a popular market.

Schoolrooms, barley sheds and the story of the grain belt.

A National Trust museum in Maitland's 1877 former school, with a Cereal Heritage Shed and Barley Shed telling the story of the peninsula's farming heartland.

Home of Harry Butler's "Red Devil" monoplane.

A central wheat-country town that proudly displays aviator Harry Butler's restored "Red Devil" Bristol monoplane.

District stories in an 1880s general store.

A National Trust museum in part of an 1889 general store on Minlaton's main street, with district history displays and a room devoted to aviator Harry Butler.

State heritage area at the heart of Little Cornwall.

A vast state heritage precinct of engine houses, cottages and a museum recalling Australia's richest copper mine.

Copper-era treasures in the grand old miners' school.

A richly stocked museum in the imposing former Moonta Mines Model School, telling the Cornish copper story.

A sprawling open-air heritage precinct of Cornish mine ruins, engine houses and miners cottages on the Copper Coast.

A ketch port asleep beside its heritage jetty.

A tiny former ketch port between Ardrossan and Port Vincent, with a heritage-listed 1913 jetty, an old goods shed and some of the east coast's quietest water.