Robert Richard Torrens
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Sir Robert Richard Torrens,, also known as Robert Richard Chute Torrens, was an Irish-born parliamentarian, writer, and land reformer. After a move to London in 1836, he became prominent in the early
Torrens in an 1880 illustration
Bust of Robert Torrens by the sculptor John Dowie, formerly located in the Lands Titles Office, Adelaide, but now held in the South Australian Parliament Research Library
River Torrens
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The River Torrens is the most significant river of the Adelaide Plains. It was one of the main reasons for the siting of the city of Adelaide, capital of South Australia. It flows 85 kilometres from i
Robert Richard Torrens
…William Landsborough, who discovered it in 1862 while searching for Burke and Wills. (Note: Places named after his father, Robert Torrens, are the River Torrens, the suburb of Torrensville, Lake Torrens and Torrens Island.) There is a portrait of Torrens in the Art Gallery of South Australia, and a drawing of…
View of Elder Park, the Riverside Precinct and the Torrens Lake in 2026
View west towards the Torrens outlet from the Davis Bridge, Tapleys Hill Road
Second Creek at St Peters, showing open canal at that point
The river in summer at base of the Adelaide Hills, Athelstone