Alice Springs Telegraph Station
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 Australia. Established in 1872 to relay messages 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.
Alice Springs Telegraph Station
Alice Springs telegraph station buildings in 1905
Staff at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station.
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