Background represents an integral segment of the overall Adelaide Park Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga Lands, if not the pivot point, illustrative of Light’s Plan for the City of Adelaide. The Square was designed and has evolved as the grand centre of Adelaide, overlaid as a formal grid on Tarndanyangga, the meeting place of the Kaurna people while hosting other clans of the surrounding plain and hills. Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga is the centrally located square within the City. The identifies found landscape zones in the Park Lands - Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga is within the Urban Gardens Zone (4). The Urban Gardens Zone is characterised by formal gardens and avenue plantings and provide a distinctive transition landscape between the river and North Adelaide and includes the six Squares of the City. Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga is Adelaide’s principal square, the centre and focal point of Adelaide. At approximately six hectares, it is 50 per cent larger than each of the other five squares integral to Colonel William Light’s plan for Adelaide’s city centre. Yet Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga has failed to become the great public space that Light planned. Its status has been diminished over time by the movement of government institutions and offices to other parts of Adelaide. Its role as a traffic thoroughfare has divided the Square’s original shape and made it more difficult for people to access and enjoy its space and features. Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga is adjacent to some of the densest development in the City and exhibits a landscape formality unlike other places within the Park Lands. The Square is dissected by major roads and has roads around the perimeter acting as a barrier for easy access. The and ceremonial importance of Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga since European settlement is well known to South Australians. What is not well understood is that the Square has been and always will be an important gathering place for Aboriginal people. The link between the Aboriginal people and the Square area stretches back many centuries, to a time when Tarndanya (Red Kangaroo Dreaming) people gathered there for special ceremonies and dances. Anthropologist Daisy Bates tells us that Tarntanyangga was the or central camp of the tribe”, a community numbering in the “headquarters” “Dundagunya thousands. 2.1 Heritage
Background Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga represents an integral segment of the overall Adelaide Park Lands, if not the pivot point, illustrative of Light’s Plan for the City of Adelaide. The Square was designed and has evolved as the grand centre of Adelaide, overlaid as a formal grid on Tarndanyangga, the meeting place of the Kaurna people while hosting other clans of the surrounding plain and hills. Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga is the centrally located square within the City. The identifies found landscape zones in the Park Lands - Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga is within the Urban Gardens Zone (4). The Urban Gardens Zone is characterised by formal gardens and avenue plantings and provide a distinctive transition landscape between the river and North Adelaide and includes the six Squares of the City. Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga is Adelaide’s principal square, the centre and focal point of Adelaide. At approximately six hectares, it is 50 per cent larger than each of the other five squares integral to Colonel William Light’s plan for Adelaide’s city centre. Yet Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga has failed to become the great public space that Light planned. Its status has been diminished over time by the movement of government institutions and offices to other parts of Adelaide. Its role as a traffic thoroughfare has divided the Square’s original shape and made it more difficult for people to access and enjoy its space and features. Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga is adjacent to some of the densest development in the City and exhibits a landscape formality unlike other places within the Park Lands. The Square is dissected by major roads and has roads around the perimeter acting as a barrier for easy access. The and ceremonial importance of Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga since European settlement is well known to South Australians. What is not well understood is that the Square has been and always will be an important gathering place for Aboriginal people. The link between the Aboriginal people and the Square area stretches back many centuries, to a time when Tarndanya (Red Kangaroo Dreaming) people gathered there for special ceremonies and dances. Anthropologist Daisy Bates tells us that Tarntanyangga was the “headquarters” or central camp of the “Dundagunya tribe”, a community numbering in the thousands. 2.1 Heritage