KANGAROO Island on Franklin St, the Flinders Ranges in Dulwich and the Barossa Valley nestled among Rundle St cafes - welcome to Adelaide, Apple style.

Many of South Australia's most famous landmarks and tourist attractions have been moved to strange locations or have disappeared completely on Apple's new iPhone maps app, rolled out last month as part of the latest iOS6 software upgrade.

Top city attractions such as the Botanic Garden and the National Wine Centre are completely missing from the map of Adelaide.

Searching for "Adelaide Botanic Garden" brings up a marker for "Hunter Region Botanic Gardens Ltd" at O'Sullivan Beach.

North Tce is shown as a long stretch of empty paddocks, with Government House and Parliament House totally missing and the Festival Centre is relocated north to the corner of Victoria Drive.

And any tourists who happen to spell the venue the American way - "center" - will be inexplicably directed to the Wheaton Ale Fest pub in Chicago.

Even more baffling is that Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, located 11.5 hours' drive from Adelaide in the Flinders Ranges, is shown in Dulwich, and that Cleland Wildlife Park in the Adelaide Hills is supposedly on Carrington St in the city.

The app not only commits the cardinal sin of spelling Victor Harbor with a "u" but locates it more than 10km northwest of the town's actual coastal location.

Most confusing of all is Kangaroo Island's Seal Bay, one of the state's top tourist attractions, which not only is shown as being inside a chartered accountants' office in Parkside but lists a phone number that connects to the Albury All Seasons Tourist Park in NSW.

The maps, which replace the Google Maps app in the new iPhone 5 and on all iPhones using iOS6, have been the butt of online jokes for misplacing towns, cities and buildings all over the world.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook apologised last month for the mapping problems and said the company was working to fix the problem.