Alice Springs
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Alice Springs is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement in the Northern Territory after Darwin and Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor Wil
View of Alice Springs from Anzac Hill, with MacDonnell Ranges and Heavitree Gap in the background
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Todd River spring, the "springs" that give the town its name
The original Alice Springs Telegraph Station was built in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide.
Arrernte people
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The Arrernte people are a group of Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the Arrernte lands at Mparntwe and surrounding areas of the Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. Many still
Alice Springs
…Todd. The town is situated roughly in Australia's geographic centre, nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin. The area's original inhabitants, the Arrernte, have lived in the Central Australian desert for tens of thousands of years. Alice Springs had a population of 34,783 as of June 2025. The town's…
Arrernte welcoming dance, entrance of the strangers, Alice Springs, Central Australia, 9 May 1901, photograph
Artist Albert Namatjira was a Western Arrernte man.
The Hunters of the Central Australian Desert: Arunta Hunter diorama at the Milwaukee Public Museum