AREA: 978,810 sq. km.,
POPULATION: 1,474,000 (1996)
CAPITAL: Adelaide (1,100,000)

South Australia is known as the driest state in the driest continent on earth, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have some of the most beautiful coastline and lakes in the world!. The Blue Lake at Mount Gambier is renowned for its deep rich azure colour, while the mighty Murray River wends its serene way for 300 miles right through its southern portions. In contrast, the giant salt lakes of Lake Eyre and Gairdner are huge dry salt lakes, and surrounded by spectacular wildflowers, birds and wildlife in all seasons and conditions. Lake Eyre is also the mecca for world land speed record.attempts.
 
Across the Nullarbor Plain to the west, the stark treeless landscape contrasts with the spectacular coastline only a few kilometres to the south side of the road/train line where the wild southern ocean crashes onto the coast, creating diverse patterns in the rock face and sheltering the whales which come each season to breed in the protected waters.

In the mid-north the Flinders Ranges are a spectacular range of red cliffs with numerous walking tracks, gorges and chasms to explore.

Welcome to the official travel site for South Australia, renowned for its wow factor - an abundance of Wildlife, Outback and Wine - including Australia's own Galapagos, Kangaroo Island, the stunning Flinders Ranges and Outback, and the Barossa Valley.