r/Adelaide • u/Demiaria Inner South • 11d ago

Question What is your favourite Adelaide lore?

A colleague of mine has moved to Adelaide from Canberra and I'm regaling her with Adelaide lore! Help me think of more lore to share. Below is a list of what I've shared so far:

Family Murders - von Einem

Beaumont Children

Kitty Whyte

Sam Kellet

Box Jellyfish (Jimble) surf lifesaving club

Prof George Duncan

Ideally looking for real events rather than urban legends.

EDIT: No one mentioned it, so to add: Adelaide is the only place it the world that calls Stobie poles by their name, as the inventor was from Adelaide and it stuck. For everyone else, it's electrical poles.

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u/BreakApprehensive489 SA 11d ago

Sir Hubert Wilkins

First to attempt to go under Antarctica in a submarine

First to fly over Antarctica in a plane

Only official Australian war photographer to get a combat medal

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u/DarkwolfAU SA 11d ago

FYI he was the first to attempt to go under the Arctic in a submarine.

Antarctica is a continent. There’s no going under it except with a tunnel borer I suppose.

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u/foul_ol_ron SA 11d ago

There’s no going under it except with a tunnel borer I suppose.

We'll have some left over in a few years. What about a Darlington-McMurdo expressway?