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
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.
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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
Australian Overland Telegraph Line
…line to lift their spirits. The message he sent along the incomplete line on 22 May 1872, took 9 days to reach Adelaide. Completion Repeater station at Alice Springs, c. 1880 Running more than seven months behind schedule, the two lines were finally joined at Frew's Ponds on Thursday, 22 August 1872. Todd was given…
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.