The Adelaide Hills Face Zone as a Cultural Landscape
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چکیده
As early as 1836 the first Surveyor-General to the new colony of South Australia, Colonel William Light, referred to the Mount Lofty Ranges as ‘these enchanted hills’ and since this time the symbiotic relationship between the Mount Lofty Ranges and the city of Adelaide has been highly valued by the people of Adelaide. One aim of the recently completed Adelaide Hills Face Zone Cultural Heritage Project was to document and map cultural changes to the landscape of the western face of the Mount Lofty Ranges following European colonisation in the late 1830s.
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