Australia - Alice Springs
We visit the Flying Doctors, the Pioneer Women Hall of Fame in the old Goal, the School of the Air , the Araluen Cultural Precinct with the Central Australia Aviation Museum as well as the Yeperenye Shopping Centre.
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Museum Central Australia, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
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TOP 50 ALICE SPRINGS Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best places to visit in Alice Springs - Australia, video about all things to do in Alices Springs tourist attractions by Explore Australia. Alice Springs located between Adelaide and Darwin, the popular gateway to Red Centre in Northern Teritory.
Alices Springs has many beautiful places such as Desert Park, Larapinta Trail, Kangaroo Sanctuary, Anzac Hill, Ormiston Gorge, Finke Gorge National Park, Mount Gillen, Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Chambers Pillar, Ochre Pits, The Emily and Jessie Gaps, Simpsons Gap, Corroboree Rock Conservation Area, LAstragale, Owen Springs Reserve, John Hayes Rockhole etc.
Others popular things to do in Alice Springs is visiting Alices Springs Reptile Centre, Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, Road Transport Hall of Fame, National Pioneer Woe's Hall of Fame & Old Alice Springs Gaol, Yubu Napa Art Gallery, Araluen Arts Centre, Aboriginal Australia Culture Centre, Central Australia Aviation Museum, Camels Australia, John Flynn's Historical Reserve, Old Ghan Museum and Adelaide House Museum.
Also don't forget to visit some best places in Alice Springs such as Mbantua Fine Art Gallery, The Recidency, Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve, Iranti Art Gallery, Jila Arts, Talapi, Tangentyere Artist, Sounds of Starlight, Stuart Town Gaol, Megafauna Central - Museum and Art Gallery of NT, Kathleen Buzzacott Art Studio, Museum of Central Australia, Alice Springs RSL War Museum, Todd Mall Markets, Tropic of Capricorn Marker, Flynn Memorial Uniting Church, Johh McDouall Stuart, Supreme Court of North Teritory, David D Smith Park and Alice Springs Convention Centre.
For complete list of things to do in Alice Springs tourist attractions or best places to visit, simply watching this Top 50 Alice Springs attractions video.
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Alice Springs is the third largest town in the Northern Territory, Australia. Popularly known as the Alice or simply Alice, Alice Springs is situated in the geographic centre of Australia near the southern border of the Northern Territory.[2] The site 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. Alice in the English-language was named by surveyor W. W. Mills after Lady Alice Todd (née Alice Gillam Bell), wife of Sir Charles Todd. Alice Springs has a population of 25,186 people, which makes up 12 percent of the territory's population.[3] Alice averages 576 metres (1,890 ft) above sea level;[citation needed] the town is nearly equidistant from Adelaide, South Australia and Darwin.
The town of Alice Springs straddles the usually dry Todd River on the northern side of the MacDonnell Ranges. The region where Alice Springs is located is known as Central Australia, or the Red Centre, and is 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 (96.1 °F), and an average minimum temperature in winter of 5.1 °C (41.2 °F).[4]
Alice Springs is also the only significant town in Australia named after an Australian woman.[citation needed]
The town's focal point, the Todd Mall, hosts a number of Aboriginal art galleries and community events. Alice Springs' desert lifestyle has inspired several unique events, such as the Alice Desert Festival Camel Cup, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta, Beanie Festival and the Finke Desert Race. The Finke Desert Race is some 400 kilometres (250 mi) south of Alice Springs in the Simpson Desert.
The American population celebrates most of the major American festivals, including Halloween, Independence Day and Thanksgiving. A portion of the Australian citizens engage in the festivities as well.
Alice Springs is renowned as the Aboriginal Art capital of Central Australia, home to many local and Aboriginal art galleries.[35] Indigenous Australian art is the more dominant, and galleries showcase the rich culture and native traditions that abound in Central Australia. Trade in Aboriginal art soared after the painting movement began at Papunya, a Central Australian Aboriginal settlement, and swept other indigenous communities. Central Australia is the home of some of the most prominent names in Aboriginal art, including Emily Kngwarreye, Minnie Pwerle, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Albert Namatjira and Wenten Rubuntja. The Museum of Central Australia / Stehlow Research Centre feature some of the most important natural history and archival materials tied to the history and culture of the region. The Strehlow Archives also contain materials linked to the Arendte people of Central Australia. The Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment presents world-class ballets and orchestras, as well as local performances. The National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame is also located in the town.
Locals also enjoy meeting up in Konjo Park for BBQ's every Sunday at 11am. This is an excellent time to meet and greet the locals who can quite often undertake games of Football and Frisbee.
The annual Desert Mob Art Show sees art collectors and art lovers from all over the world travel to Alice Springs to see works from Aboriginal art centres in Central Australia, with works by artists from remote areas of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. This show is in conjunction with the Artist Association Desart and usually runs in September of each year at the Araluen Art Centre.
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Royal Flying Doctor Service - Alice Springs, Red Centre, Northern Territory, Australia
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Alice Springs Airport, 1970s Australia in HD
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Australian War Memorial Canberra
Where Airplanes Go To Die - Boneyards Of The World
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Have you ever wondered what happens to an aircraft once it has served out its usefulness? Many obsolete planes find their final resting spots in an airplane graveyard, where they sit dejectedly among their fellow former flying brethren. Lots of them are still technically airworthy, but they are parked in the desert or some out-of-the-way place due to a slump in demand, waiting for an aviation uptick and their chance to soar again. Some are dismantled for scrap metal or cannibalized for spare parts. These fleets of abandoned behemoths make for some rather haunting yet beautiful images.
Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Group (AMARG), Arizona
The largest airplane graveyard is in Tuscon, where the dry, arid Arizona desert keeps rust and corrosion at a minimum. Many of the 4,400 planes in this storage and maintenance facility are recommissioned or repurposed, but others just remain as a relic to their former glory. The place is nicknamed “The Boneyard” and an aerial view from above looks particularly striking.
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona
AMARG is part of Davis-Monthan AFB, where hundreds of vintage military planes sit in silence. Since 1946, it was used to house old planes from World War II. The last plane to leave Saigon as it fell rests alongside disassembled Cold War bombers.
Alice Springs Airport, Australia
The “Red Center” of Australia’s Northern Territory is about as dry as it gets, providing perfect conditions for big metal objects to hang out without much deterioration. The is the first large-scale aircraft storage, preservation and graveyard facility outside the United States, and it focuses primarily on Asia-Pacific carriers.
Roswell International Air Center, New Mexico
See if you can spot any abandoned spacecraft in amongst the parked airplanes in limbo at this Roswell graveyard. This facility is where the crashed UFO was apparently taken for analysis in 1947, at least according to some conspiracy theorists.
RAF Shawbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
This former Royal Flying Corps airfield dates back to WWI and now serves primarily as a storage depot for grounded obsolete aircraft. In March 1994, Blackburn Buccaneer subsonic strike jets were retired from Royal Air Force service. Some of these two-seater bombers are on display at aviation museums around the world, but many have come to this Shrewsbury facility to be stripped and recycled, mere ghosts of their former glory.
Southern California Logistics Airport, California
Where do commercial planes rest in peace? Many of them end up in the desert, including this one near Victorville, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Lots of old jumbos are spending their retirement years here.
Mojave Air and Space Port
About 1000 commercial airlines are mothballed at this Civilian Aerospace Test Center. At an elevation of 2,791 feet and in the heart of the Mojave desert means conditions are ideal for parking these used birds. Boeing, Airbus, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed planes from many major airlines are stored and scrapped here.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Nigeria
The Lagos airport has an adjacent field that is littered with the carcasses of old planes from failed airlines. Most are dilapidated and have been picked apart for scrap.
Phoenix Goodyear Airport, Arizona
Here is a row of American Airlines DC-10s at the end of their life cycle, sitting side by side in the arid Arizona desert awaiting their ultimate fate. There’s almost an artistic sculptural quality to their formation.
Manas International Airport, Kyrgyzstan
Since 1991, this boneyard in Bishkek has hosted lots of disbanded Soviet relics, including some Aeroflot Tu-134 aircraft.
Khodynka Aerodrome, Russia
Moscow’s former Khodynka Aerodrome (the birthplace of Russian aviation) is littered with 20-odd rotting relics and decaying war-birds from a bygone era, remnants of an abandoned museum. Juxtaposed with modern Moscow, these rusty shells have a rather eerie yet captivating quality.
History and Heritage, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Follow in the desert tracks of the early pioneers and discover stories of Central Australia exploration on an historic tour of Alice Springs.
The pioneer heritage tourist attractions in Alice Springs include the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, the Alice Springs Telegraph Station, the National Road Transport Hall of Fame, and the Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum.
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La magie du centre rouge d'Australie !
Sydney to Alice Springs
An ordinary odyssey...
Music: My Step by Little Dragon
Alice Springs, Alice Motor Inn, Australia
Alice Motor Inn (hotel), Alice Springs, Undoolya Road, Northern Territory, Australia 2011
With views of the MacDonnell Ranges, Alice Motor Inn offers free WiFi, free secure car parking and free continental breakfast. Guests can take a dip in the pool or relax in the garden with barbecue facilities.
All rooms at Alice Springs Motor Inn include air conditioning, refrigerator and en suite bathroom. Self-contained family rooms feature a fully equipped kitchen.
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Women in Australia, National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame Alice Springs
Imagine finding the Women's Hall of Fame in Alice Springs! Its a must do when in the Red Centre. HERSTORY as opposed to HISTORY....
Port Adelaide, South Australia
The city of Port Adelaide dates back to the 1830s. Once a bustling industrial port city on the north west of Adelaide (Capital of the state of South Australia) is going through a rejuvenation with the new blending in with the new with the arts playing a central role in characterising the new city.
In this short film I share the sights I enjoyed during my discovery of this historic precinct.
Ochre Pits, MacDonnell Ranges, Alice Springs, Australia
Ochre Pits. MacDonnell Ranges, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 2011
The Ochre Pits are a popular tourist destination in Australia's Northern Territory, approximately 100 kilometres west of Alice Springs along the Larapinta Trail. The pits consist of several layers of multi-coloured, layered rock that was traditionally used by Australian Aborigines in ceremonies and played an important role in the continent's economy, being traded with neighbouring clans and countries,[1] in every direction on the continent.
The mine belongs to the Western Arrernte people. Prior to European settlement of the area in 1880, only certain men were qualified to collect the ochre. It was considered some of the choicest ochre - soft to touch, vivid, with a slight sheen to it. The colours range from gold to crimson. After the ochre was mined by the Western Arrernte, it was ground and mixed with Emu fat for ceremonial body adornment.
Ochre Pits. MacDonnell Range, Alice Springs.
Air and Space museum, 1 hour tour.
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The best museum in the world;
Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver, Colorado
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Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, California
Central Air Force Museum, Monino, Russia
Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum, Alice Springs, Australia
Red Bull Hangar-7, Salzburg, Austria
Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Canada
China Aviation Museum, Beijing, China
Oleg Antonov State Aviation Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, Poland
EAA Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Aerospace Bristol, Bristol, UK
Delta Flight Museum, Atlanta, GA
Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, AZ
Museum of Air and Space, Le Bourget, France
The Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA
National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton, OH
Imperial War Museum Duxford, Duxford, UK
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington, D.C. and Chantilly, VA
NTFRS arriving
NTFRS 49 arriving at Red Dog Cafe Fire in Alice Springs a few weeks ago. 915 was already on scene.
Old Aircraft hanger, Darwin Australia. 1945 War damage.
Old Qantas hanger in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. This Aircraft hanger survived the air raids during WW2 and Cyclone Tracy which flattened most of Darwin in 1974. It is now used by the vintage Car club as a work shop. Original Japanese bullet holes from the air raids are still visible in the steel girders, a reminder of the trouble that went down.
Outback Rugby
Kim Window, teacher at Katherine School of the Air, has a passion for rugby. See how this amazing school brings a remote community together and get an insight into the role rugby plays in the Outback.