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16 unusual facts about Alice Springs


Adrian Burnside

Adrian Mark Burnside (born 15 March 1977) is a retired Australian baseball player born in Alice Springs.

Alice Springs

Nevil Shute's novel A Town Like Alice, and the resulting film and television mini-series, take their name from Alice Springs, although little of the action takes place there; because part of the story is set in Willstown (possibly modelled on Burketown) situated north of Alice Springs, near the Gulf of Carpentaria.

They were named after anthropologist, naturalist and artist Olive Pink, who lived in the town for almost 30 years and died in 1975.

Australasian Safari

In 1988, Australia's Bicentennial year, the event was tagged "The Big One" and was expanded to cover 10,000 km in 15 days, with a start in Alice Springs and traveling across the Tanami Desert, through the Kimberley region into Darwin, across the Gulf Country of far northwest Queensland and an eventual finish in Sydney.

Electoral division of Araluen

It was first created in 1983, replacing the electorate of Alice Springs, which had been abolished as part of the enlargement of the Assembly.

Electoral division of Braitling

Braitling is an almost entirely urban electorate, covering 60 km² in north-western Alice Springs.

It was created in 1983, when the electorate of Alice Springs was abolished as part of an enlargement of the Assembly.

Electoral division of Greatorex

Greatorex is a mostly urban electorate, covering an area of 76 km², and encompassing the Alice Springs suburbs of Sadadeen and Traeger Park.

Electoral division of Stuart

It is a large rural electorate encompassing much of the western Territory, covering 383,859 km² and taking in the towns of Dagaragu, Lajamanu, Willowra, Yuendumu, and part of the north-eastern side of Alice Springs.

Jan Matson

Originally from Adelaide, Jan began painting seriously while living in Alice Springs in the early 1980s where she won the Centralian Advocate Art Award.

Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar

After September 1999 its operations were moved to the Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, and ownership of the premises were transferred to the Woomera Test Range (Headquartered in Adelaide).

Natasha Griggs

moved to the Territory when she was four weeks old and attended primary and secondary schools in Alice Springs before moving to Darwin in 1987 to complete a Bachelor of Business at the Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University).

No. 1 Radar Surveillance Unit RAAF

While 1RSU's headquarters are located at RAAF Base Edinburgh the unit also has personnel stationed at the JORN sites near Longreach in Queensland, Alice Springs in the Northern Territory and Laverton in Western Australia.

No. 31 Squadron RAAF

the squadron undertook a period of training before deploying to Batchelor, Northern Territory, in October, the aircraft flying via Alice Springs.

Northern Territory Women's Division

The tournament has its origins in an annual match started in 1994 between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek by Shane and Mervyn Franey from Alice Springs and Ross Williams from Tennant Creek.

The Regent's School Pattaya

The school was formally inducted into Round Square at St. Philip's College in Alice Springs, Australia, where the 2001 International Round Square Conference was hosted.


Adelaide Film Festival

2005 saw over 250 screenings, including the world premiere of six AFFIF funded titles, including Look Both Ways a feature film directed by Sarah Watt, the interactive web series UsMob.com.au filmed in the Hidden Valley town camp outside Alice Springs in Arrernte country and the new rescore to Fritz Lang's Metropolis by The New Pollutants (Benjamin Speed and Tyson Hopprich)

Ambrose Pratt

He was a proponent (from around 1925) of The Ghan railway to Alice Springs and rode in the VIP carriage during the inaugural journey.

Asia Pacific Transport Consortium

The Asia Pacific Transport Consortium leases some assets on the Darwin - Alice Springs section from the AustralAsia Rail Corporation, and subleases of the Alice Springs - Tarcoola, South Australia railway from the Australian Government through the AustralAsia Rail Corporation.

Curtly Hampton

Originally from Alice Springs, he captained the Australian Institute of Sport and is the son of former politician Karl Hampton.

Driver Group

Driver Group today operates charters originating in Melbourne and operating to destinations around the country, Great Sights day tours in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and Gray Line Australia day tours in Melbourne, Perth, Cairns, Adelaide, Darwin, Alice Springs and Tasmania.

Eisteddfod

Many other communities host smaller eisteddfods, including Alice Springs, Darwin and Melbourne.

Eugene Merle Shoemaker

Shoemaker died on July 18, 1997 during one such expedition following a head on car accident while on the Tanami Road northwest of Alice Springs, Australia.

Francis James Gillen

In 1875 he became involved in the construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line and was appointed the Alice Springs post and telegraph Station Master in 1892.

Henley-on-Todd Regatta

The Henley-on-Todd Regatta (also called the Todd River Race) is a "boat" race held annually in the typically dry sandy bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs, Australia.

Lake Neale

Lake Neale was named after Frank Neale, one of the pilots of an aerial expedition to accurately survey the desert regions northwest of Alice Springs in 1930.

Lake Woods

It lies on Newcastle Creek close to the small town of Elliott on the Stuart Highway, about halfway between Darwin and Alice Springs.

Malarndirri McCarthy

Born in Katherine in 1970, Malarndirri attended school in Borroloola, Alice Springs and St Scholastica's College in Glebe, Sydney, where she was School Captain in 1988.

Renewable energy in Australia

Adelaide, Townsville, Blacktown and Alice Springs are the first four solar cities announced in Australia.

Robyn Davidson

Having met the photographer Rick Smolan in Alice Springs, she insisted that he be the photographer for the journey.

Samuel Albert White

He made several private ornithological collecting expeditions across remote areas of Australia, to Alice Springs (1913), Musgrave and Everard Ranges (1914), Cooper Creek (1916), Nullarbor Plain (1917-1918), Finke River (1921), and Adelaide to Darwin and return (1922), on behalf of Gregory Mathews.