Alice Springs on a large scale map Alice Springs is a large town in the Northern Territory of Australia located at 23°42′ S 133°52′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=23_42_S_133_52_E_region:AU-NT). Its population of 28,178 (2001 Census) makes it the second-largest settlement in the Territory (the only other towns of significant size are Darwin, the capital, and Katherine). It is popularly described as "the Alice" or simply "Alice". Alice Springs is known as Mparntwe to its traditional owners the Arrente. Map of Australia. ...
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Katherine, with a population of around 7,500 is a town situated 320 km south east of the city of Darwin in the federal Northern Territory of Australia. ...
Arrente is both a language, a group of people, and an area of land in Central Australia. ...
History Alice Springs is best known outside the region as the setting of the Nevil Shute novel A Town Like Alice, and because of its proximity to Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, the monolithic hill that is one of Australia's best-known natural landmarks as well as an important focus of Aboriginal culture and beliefs. Nevil Shute (January 17, 1899 - January 12, 1960) (real name Nevil Shute Norway) was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. ...
A Town like Alice is a novel by the English author Nevil Shute. ...
Uluru (also Ayers Rock or The Rock) is a large rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. ...
Uluru (also Ayers Rock or The Rock) is a large rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. ...
Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ...
"Springs" that gave the town its name Originally named Stuart, the town was established almost as a frontier settlement for north-south travel by camel trains through the desert of the outback. A telegraph station was placed near a permanent waterhole called Alice Springs (see photograph) after the wife of Sir Charles Todd, Postmaster General of South Australia, after whom the River Todd (which is usually dry) was named. The Ghan railway from Adelaide reached Stuart in 1929, and the town moved away from the waterhole, but locals kept the name. In 1933, after much debate, the town of Stuart was officially renamed Alice Springs. The north-south road between Darwin, Alice Springs and Adelaide is still called the Stuart Highway. Springs that gave Alice Springs its name. ...
Springs that gave Alice Springs its name. ...
John McDouall Stuart (7 September 1815 – 5 June 1866) was the most accomplished and most famous of all Australias inland explorers and led the first expedition to successfully traverse the continent from south to north. ...
A camel train is a series of camels carrying goods or passengers in a group as part of a regular or semi-regular service between two points. ...
A typical outback scene, somewhere north of Coober Pedy. ...
Maybe you are looking for Charles Lafayette Todd Charles Todd (born 7 July 1826 in London, died Adelaide 29 January 1910) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841-1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847-1854. ...
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The Ghan is the 48-hour, 2,979-km passenger service on the Adelaide-Alice Springs-Darwin Central Australian Railway in Australia. ...
Adelaide is the capital city of the Australian state of South Australia. ...
1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Almost in the exact center of the continent, Alice Springs is some 700 kilometres from the nearest ocean and 1500 kilometres from the nearest major cities: Darwin and Adelaide. Alice Springs is now the midpoint of the Adelaide-Darwin Railway. The Ghan is the 48-hour, 2,979-km passenger service on the Adelaide_Alice Springs-Darwin Central Australian Railway in Afghan camel trains which trekked the same route before the advent of the railway. ...
During the 1960s it became an important defence location with the development of the U.S/Australian Pine Gap joint defense satellite monitoring base, home to about 700 workers from both countries, but by far the major industry in recent times is tourism. Pine Gap is the commonly used name for a satellite tracking station near the city of Alice Springs in the heart of Australia that is owned and operated by the U.S. It consists of a large computer complex with eight radomes protecting antennae, and has over 800 employees. ...
A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ...
Alice Springs Landsat image File links The following pages link to this file: Alice Springs MacDonnell Ranges ...
File links The following pages link to this file: Alice Springs MacDonnell Ranges ...
Demography
Itinerant population Alice Springs has a large itinerant population made up of: An itinerant is a person who travels from place to place with no real home. ...
- Tourists
- Residents of Pine Gap
- Australian Aborigines visiting from nearby Central Australian communities
- Australian or international workers on short-term contracts (colloquially referred to as "blowflies")
Pine Gap is the commonly used name for a satellite tracking station near the city of Alice Springs in the heart of Australia that is owned and operated by the U.S. It consists of a large computer complex with eight radomes protecting antennae, and has over 800 employees. ...
Central Australia is a term used to describe the area of land surrounding and including Alice Springs in Australia. ...
American influence The American influence in Alice Springs comes primarily from the proximity to Pine Gap, a US satellite tracking station, located 19 km south-west of Alice Springs. While Pine Gap employs 700 American and Australians, there are currently 2,000 people in the Alice Springs district who carry citizenship of the United States of America. As well as family members accompanying those posted to Pine Gap, many Americans move to Alice Springs to live after serving their terms in Pine Gap, or perhaps due to the existing large proportion of Americans living in Alice Springs. Pine Gap is the commonly used name for a satellite tracking station near the city of Alice Springs in the heart of Australia that is owned and operated by the U.S. It consists of a large computer complex with eight radomes protecting antennae, and has over 800 employees. ...
American influence can be seen throughout Alice Springs, which celebrates all major American festivals, including Halloween, Independence Day and Thanksgiving. There are is also a large influence of American culture in sport, including baseball and American football competitions, which live alongside more Australian sports of cricket, Australian football and rugby [1] (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/about_alice/american.asp). A jack-o-lantern Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31, usually by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy. ...
These fireworks over the Washington Monument are typical of Fourth of July celebrations In the United States, Independence Day, also called the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. ...
The First Thanksgiving, after the painting by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris (1863-1930) Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in much of North America, generally observed as an expression of gratitude, usually to God. ...
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United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ...
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Aboriginal population According to the 2001 census, Australian Aborigines make up approximately 17% of the population of Alice Springs, and 29% of the Northern Territory. [2] (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/about_alice/about_sum.asp) As Alice Springs is the regional hub of Central Australia it attracts Aboriginal people from all over that region and well beyond. Many Aborigines visit regularly to use the town's services. Aboriginal residents live in the suburbs, on special purpose leases (or town camps) or further out at Amoonguna to the South and on the small family outstation communities on Aboriginal Lands in surrounding areas. Motto: None Nickname: ? Other Australian states and territories Capital Darwin Government Administrator Chief Minister Const. ...
Aboriginal Centralians have had relatively little time to adapt to European settlement. European exploration of the region did not begin until the 1860's and the European population here was only small in mnumber until well into the twentieth century. Aboriginal families were still coming out of the desert, coming into contact with White Australia for the first time as late as the 1960's, with the last family emerging from the Gibson Desert in 1984. [3] (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/about_alice/aboriginal.asp) The combination of extremes of cultural difference and resulting drastic enforced change over a short period of time has resulted in serious social and economic problems for Indigenous Australians in Alice Springs as much as anywhere else in Australia. Many government and non-government organisations work to help Aboriginal citizens cope with and overcome the difficulties they face.
Tourism The primary reason for tourism to Alice Springs had been its proximity to Uluru, which is 400 km to the West. However, with the creation of Yulara resort in 1984, and an airport allowing tourists to fly directly to Yulara, many tourists no longer visit Alice Springs. Alice Springs had also been used by many Australian tourists as a stopover point between Darwin and Adelaide or Brisbane and Perth, but the airlines now prefer to fly directly to their destinations. Uluru (also Ayers Rock or The Rock) is a large rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. ...
Yulara is an isolated town in Australias Northern Territory with approximately 2,000 inhabitants. ...
Alice Springs has a large number of tourist resorts, a casino, the Araluen arts centre and museum, nightclubs, clubs, pubs, restaurants and cafes. Visitor attractions include a Desert Park wildlife centre, Open Air Ballooning, Camel Tours, a Reptile Centre, a Cinema. Also supporting the tourist industry are over a dozen hotels, caravan parks and backpacker lodges, as well as tourist centres that run tours to Hermannsburg, The Olgas, Ayer's Rock, King's Canyon, Wallace Rock Hole and a number of other places. (ref: [4] (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/about_alice/lifestyle.asp)) The Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey A casino is a building that accommodates gambling. ...
The Araluen Arts Centre and museum in Alice Springs is an unexpectedly large center for such a small town. ...
A nightclub (often dance club or club, particularly in the UK) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ...
A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries influenced by British cultural heritage. ...
A typical restaurant in uptown Manhattan A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to be consumed on the premises. ...
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A Reptile Center is typically a facility devoted to keeping living reptiles, educating the public about reptiles, and serving as a controll center for collecting reptiles that turn up in populated areas. ...
Hotel is the letter H in the NATO phonetic alphabet. ...
Caravan Parks are privately-owned locations which provide a stopping point - overnight or for weekly stays - for people traveling in a caravan, also known as a trailer or motorhome. ...
Hermannsburg, located in the Celle district of the German state of Lower_Saxony, is home to 8,500 Inhabitants. ...
The large monolithic rock formations known as Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) are a remarkable group of 30 or so domed hills situated very close to Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory of Australia. ...
Uluru (also Ayers Rock or The Rock) is a large rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. ...
Kings Canyon is a canyon formed by an ancient (usually now dry) river system in Central Australia, about 2 hours drive from Uluru / Ayres Rock. ...
Alice Springs is host to a large number of festivals, including the Finke Desert Race and the Todd River Race that are held annually (ref: [5] (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/tourism/events.asp)). The Todd River Race is also called the Henley-on-Todd Regatta, and it began - and continues - as a joke at the expense of the original British settlers and the formal atmospehre of the British river races which continue today. ...
Much traditional Aboriginal artwork from the neighbouring Central Australian communities, including artefacts and Dreamtime stories is for sale to tourists in Alice Springs. (ref: [6] (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/tourism/tourism.asp)) The Mona Lisa Although today the word art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. ...
Central Australia is a term used to describe the area of land surrounding and including Alice Springs in Australia. ...
The word Dreamtime has several meanings: Dreamtime is the mythology of Australian Aborigines. ...
Economy Alice Springs has a booming economy and is one of Australia's wealthiest towns. Major inputs to the economy include: - Tourism, especially related to Uluru, which gives Alice Springs 500,000 tourists per year (ref: [7] (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/about_alice/lifestyle.asp))
- The significant government funding in relation to the high traditional Aboriginal population
- Income derived from Pine Gap adds $12 million per year to the economy (ref: [8] (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/about_alice/american.asp))
Uluru (also Ayers Rock or The Rock) is a large rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. ...
Climate Temperatures vary by an average of 20 degrees Celsius from minimum to maximum on any given day. In summer, the temperature typically reach the low 40s degrees Celsius maximum (but can be as high as 48), while in winter it can drop to as low as -7 degrees Celsius minimum (and has been reported to be as low as -10). The climate is arid, with little or no rainfall, although the amount of rainfall varies enormously from one year to the next. The climate is generally very dry, with little or no humidity. (ref: [9] (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/about_alice/climate.asp) Alice Springs: climate)
Crime In 1985/1986, 70% of the prison population was Aboriginal. The majority of crimes committed by Aborigines in Alice Springs was against other Aboriginal people, often alcohol-related. Attempts have been made to allow Aborigines in Alice Springs to use customary law as a defence (for example, payback or traditional customs) but thus far this has failed. Alice Springs has been linked with the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance and Peter Falconio disappearance in nearby Uluru and Barrow Creek. Revenge or vengeance consists of retaliation against a person or group in response to perceived wrongdoing. ...
Traditional Customs in Parque Vidal, Santa Clara is probably one of the most traditional places in Cuba. ...
Two month old Australian baby Azaria Chamberlain disappeared on the night of 17 August 1980 on a camping trip with her family. ...
Peter Falconio Peter Falconio is a British tourist who disappeared in the Australian outback whilst travelling with girlfriend, Joanne Lees during July 2001. ...
Uluru (also Ayers Rock or The Rock) is a large rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. ...
Barrow Creek is a small rural mining town with a population of about 100, that is located about 100 km north of Alice Springs on the way towards Tennant Creek. ...
References and further reading
See also Alice Springs Juvenile Holding Centre is a maximum security Australian prison in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. ...
Alice Springs Correctional Centre is an medium and maximum security Australian prison located in Alice Springs, Australia. ...
External links - Alice Springs: official site (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/)
- Alice Springs Town Council site (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/council/council_sum.asp)
- About Alice Springs (http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/about_alice/about_sum.asp)
- Indigenous Law Resources (http://beta.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/rciadic/national/vol5/11.html)
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