Tarntanya

Tarntanya, the place of the red kangaroo, lies on the Kaurna lands of the Adelaide Plains. Before European settlement, the plains were open grassland interspersed with trees and shrubs, shaped by generations of Kaurna land management. Karrawirra Pari, the river later called the Torrens, provided water and food and was an important camping place. In 1836 British colonists founded Adelaide on these lands, and surveyor William Light selected a site near the river for the new settlement.