Tuesday 18 June 2019

TRAVEL TUESDAY #188 - ALICE SPRINGS, AUSTRALIA

“It’s no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.” ― Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice 

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Alice Springs is the third largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Popularly known as “the Alice” or simply “Alice”, Alice Springs is situated roughly in Australia’s geographic centre. The area is known as Mparntwe to its original inhabitants, the Arrernte, who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for thousands of years. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Lady Alice Todd (née Alice Gillam Bell), wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir Charles Todd.

Alice Springs has a population of 27,972, which makes up 8.7 percent of the territory’s population. Alice Springs is nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin. The town straddles the usually dry Todd River on the northern side of the MacDonnell Ranges. The surrounding region is known as Central Australia, or the Red Centre, an arid environment consisting of several different deserts.

In Alice Springs temperatures can vary dramatically, with an average maximum temperature in summer of 35.6 °C and an average minimum temperature in winter of 5.1 °C. Alice Springs has faced many problems in recent years, largely stemming from an increase in crime and a strong racial divide that has existed for years in the town.

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5 comments:

  1. What a beautiful place. Thanks for sharing it. Thanks for hosting and I hope that you have a wonderful week.

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  2. Alice Springs is a very long way from any beach and has very little rainfall of its own. So what do the locals do for drinking water, gardens, swimming pools etc?

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  3. Such a beautiful location. I could never live far away from the water I think I have it in my blood, if that even makes any sense.

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  4. The Red Rock steals the show. It must be lovely to watch the sun shine on it.
    I hope Alice Springs soon finds better days again.

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  5. I'll admit I wasn't very impressed with Alice Springs.

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