For thousands of years, six Aboriginal groups - the Kaurna, Narrungga, Nukunu, Ngadjuri, Meru and Danggali - lived here.
People from these groups still live at places within Northern and Yorke, which has many sites of indigenous cultural significance.
These places range from burial grounds to "dreaming" sites, and are blanket-protected. However, many cultural heritage sites also have natural conservation value. Natural resources there can only be managed in partnership with Aboriginal people.
Northern and Yorke also has European cultural assets such as the Clare vineyards, abandoned stone farm houses and shipwrecks.
Megafauna fossil discoveries, moss rocks, eroded cliff faces and ridgeline formations are geological assets with natural historical value.
The Northern and Yorke NRM Board encourages the understanding and safeguarding of all our cultural assets.
See pages 122 – 131 of Board’s Integrated NRM Plan