Alice Springs is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; the third largest settlement after Darwin and Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd, wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir Charles Todd. Known colloquially as "The Alice" or simply "Alice", the town is situated roughly in Australia's geographic centre. It is nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin.
View of Alice Springs from Anzac Hill, with MacDonnell Ranges and Heavitree Gap in the background
Todd River spring, the "springs" that give the town its name
The original Alice Springs Telegraph Station was built 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide
The historic Adelaide House, built 1926, the town's first hospital
Arrernte or Aranda, or sometimes referred to as Upper Arrernte, is a dialect cluster in the Arandic language group spoken in parts of the Northern Territory, Australia, by the Arrernte people. Other spelling variations are Arunta or Arrarnta, and all of the dialects have multiple other names.
Artist Albert Namatjira was a Western Arrernte man.
Kai Kai Western Arrernte, likely a speaker of Upper Arrernte; c. 1900.
Hut of the Eastern Arrernte Basedow, Eastern Arrernte people, Arltunga district, Northern Territory; August 1920.
