The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is located within the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, four kilometres north of the Alice Springs town centre in the Northern Territory of Austra
Alice Springs Telegraph Station
Alice Springs telegraph station buildings in 1905
Staff at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station
The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was an electrical telegraph system for sending messages the 3200 kilometres between Darwin, in what is now the Northern Territory of Australia, and Adelaide, the
Alice Springs Telegraph Station
…between Darwin and Adelaide, it is the original site of the first European settlement in central Australia. It was one of twelve stations along the Overland Telegraph Line. European exploration of central Australia began in 1860. John McDouall Stuart successfully crossed the continent from north to south on his third…
Planting the first pole on the Overland Telegraph line to Carpentaria
Planting the first telegraph pole, near Palmerston (Darwin) in September 1870.
Repeater station at Alice Springs, c. 1880
Remains of the Overland Telegraph line at Tennant Creek converted into telephone circuits.