North Terrace - The Statues

The statues along North Terrace would rival any statue in France, for size and grandeur.  Impressive.

The walk of discovery along North Terrace was due to Scott being told to photograph ten statues for his course at the TAFE College.  He was certainly spoilt for choice on North Terrace.  

I had so many photographs of statues I deleted most of them and kept the ones that photographed well.  The photographs of statues I deleted were:

South African War Memorial, a rider on a horse, very large and grand and difficult to photograph due to it being on the corner of North Terrace and King Willian Street.

King Edward V11, looking very important. If I remember he was rather fond of Australia.

 Sir Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist and humanitarian.   Born in Adelaide.

Sir Douglas Mawson,  geoglist, academic and Antartic explorer.

Sir Walter Watson Hughes, pastoralist, public benefactor and founder of the University of Adelaide.

 My favourite statue, Dame Roma Mitchell, Australian lawyer and the first Australian woman to be a judge, a Queen's Counsel, a chancellor of an Australian university and the governor of an Australian state.  Died in 2000.  An inspiration to women.

I am not sure who this is?  But a great photograph, taken by Scott.   We drove past there this afternoon, and I found out it was Captain Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer.  He was the first person to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent.

Robert Burns, Scottish Poet.  No connection with SouthAustralia but the statue was presented to Adelaide by the Caledonian Society.

North Terrace has been newly landscaped, not sure how long ago, but it certainly is a very beautiful street to walk along.   Reflections in the pond.

Sir Samuel James Way, lieutenant Governor, Chief Justice, Chancellor of the University of Adelaide.

Another mystery statue.

Sir Thomas Elder, Scottish-Australian pastoralist, businessman, who introduced the first camels into Australia.   Lived in South Australia.

The first World War Memorial.  So large, you can walk inside and read the names of the soldiers killed in the war.

There  are also plenty of green shady areas in which to sit and rest.  For those people who are not familier with North Terrace, there is an extremely wide pavement with seats, trees, pond and lots of statues.

The buildings behind the footpath are old and elegant;  library, museum, art gallery, and the Adelaide University buildings, one of which is in the photograph below.

We have walked along North Terrace on numerous occasions, usually with the intention of visiting the museum or art gallery or walking quickly to get to other destinations.  So it was a quite remarkable experience to look closely at the statues this time.   A journey into the past.