Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka, and numbered as Park 14, is a recreation park located in the East Park Lands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. There is an artificial lake with rowboats for hire, a café, children's playground and rose garden, and the Adelaide Bowling Club is on the Dequetteville Terrace side. The O-Bahn passes underneath it, to emerge at the western side opposite Grenfell Street.
Rymill Park lake
Adelaide Electric Supply Co. power station, East Tce, view from Rymill Park, c.1926
The entrance to the O-Bahn Busway tunnel, which passes under Rymill Park
Alice statue by John Dowie, 1962
The Adelaide Park Lands comprise the figure-eight configuration of land, spanning both banks of the River Torrens between Hackney and Thebarton, which encloses and separates the City of Adelaide area from the surrounding suburbia of greater metropolitan Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. They were laid out by Colonel William Light in his design for the city, and originally consisted of 2,300 acres (930 ha) "exclusive of 32 acres (13 ha) for a public cemetery". One copy of Light's plan shows areas for a cemetery and a Post and Telegraph Store on West Terrace, a small Government Domain and Barracks on the central part of North Terrace, a hospital on East Terrace, a Botanical Garden on the River Torrens west of North Adelaide, and a school and a storehouse south-west of North Adelaide.
Aerial view of South Park Lands showing Parks 20, 21, 22 & Whitmore Square in the lower right.
Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (Park 14), a popular part of the Park Lands
Flower bed in Pinky Flat / Tarntanya Wama (Park 26)
Gum trees and a creek in Park 20