Parks
The parklands are made up of 29 individual parks, many shaped into formal or semi-planned gardens.
The roadways crossing through the parklands define the separate parks, all of which are numbered (from "Park 1" through "Park 29"). The numbering starts at the northern end of the Parkland (the North Course of the Adelaide Golf Links), and increases clockwise around the perimeter. Most of the parks are more commonly known by a commemorative name, but some, particularly Park 10, are still known mostly by their number. In recent years, many parks were assigned alternative names as suggested by the indigenous Kaurna people. However, the original English names assigned in the 19th century remain almost universally used.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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