Koala Farm, Adelaide
Adelaide's Koala Farm was a private zoo in the city's Park Lands, founded and operated 1936–1960 by (Alfred) Keith Minchin (24 May 1899 – 1 August 1963), a member of the Adelaide Zoo Minchin dynasty. Originally two operations, the Snake Farm in Adelaide and the Koala Bear Farm 50 miles from Adelaide, they merged in 1934. History Minchin was born in Adelaide, son of the director of the Adelaide Zoo, and was educated at St Peter's College. In 1921 he was made responsible for exporting Australian animals to zoos overseas, then in 1924–1925 went overseas collecting animals for the Zoo. He started a private herpetological collection, with which in March 1927 he founded Adelaide's Snake Park on a section of the Park Lands. The section, which he rented from the Adelaide City Council, lay near Pennington Garden, between the University Oval and King William Road (now part of Park 12/Karrawirra). Part of its mission was the collection of snake venom for antivenom serum manufac ...
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Adelaide Park Lands
The Adelaide Park Lands are the figure-eight of land spanning both banks of the River Torrens between Hackney and Thebarton and separating the City of Adelaide area (which includes both Adelaide city centre and North Adelaide) 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 "exclusive of for a public cemetery". One copy of Light's plan shows areas for a cemetery and a Post and Telegraph Store on West Tce, a small Government Domain and Barracks on the central part of North Tce, a hospital on East Tce, a Botanical Garden on the River Torrens west of North Adelaide, and a school and a storehouse south-west of North Adelaide. Over the years there has been constant encroachment on the Park Lands by the state government and others. Soon after their declaration in 1837, "were lost to 'Government Reserves'".
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