Portal:South Australia/Did you know/Full list

• ...that the Adelaide O-Bahn (pictured) is a guided busway in Australia that runs from Adelaide CBD to the Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre in Modbury?

• ...that Semaphore, South Australia, the home of Australia's largest carousel is also the birthplace of renowned aviator Sir Ross Smith?

• ...that the International Grape Genome Program in Adelaide, Australia discovered that white grapes only exist today due to a rare genetic mutation that took place thousands of years ago?

• ...that John Downer, Premier of South Australia from 1885 to 1887, is the grandfather of Alexander Downer, the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007?

• ...that Beaumont House (pictured) was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral?

• ...that Ansett Airlines Flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs in 1972 was the first aircraft hijacking to take place in Australia?

• ...that the Barker Inlet in South Australia contains one of the southernmost mangrove forests in the world ?

• ...that the Yatala Labour Prison is located on an escarpment of the Para Fault Block, overlooking the Adelaide Plains?

• ...that construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral (pictured) in Adelaide did not finish until 1996, 130 years after it began?

• ...that Sir Samuel Davenport, a South Australian parliamentarian, had an electoral district named after him?

• ...that Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?

• ...that Smoky Bay in South Australia was named so after Matthew Flinders noticed large plumes of smoke from fires lit by the area's aboriginal people?

• ...that Richard Layton Butler (pictured) and his father were 31st and 23rd Premiers of South Australia, respectively?

• ...that the The Beaumont Children disappeared without a trace from a beach near Adelaide, Australia in 1966?

• ...that the town of Booleroo Centre, located in the southern Flinders Ranges region of South Australia, is home to one of Australia's largest collections of tractors and steam engines?

• ...that the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia?