Alice Springs Telegraph Station - Top Tourist Parks - Discover Downunder
TV presenter of Discover Downunder, Tim Smith, is visiting the Alice Springs Telegraph Station which is set in a National Park of some 445 hectares, beside a natural spring in the Todd River, some 3 kilometres north of the town. Tim talks with local legend and tour guide Alec Ross about the history of the station. The first building was built in 1871 making it the oldest in the Northern Territory. The buildings are open from 9am to 5 pm daily and the reserve is open from 8am to 9pm. The admission charge to the historic buildings is $6 per-adult $3 for children.
ALICE SPRING, Australia
Alice Springs est une ville située dans le Territoire du Nord de l'Australie, dans l'outback, au cœur des terres, en plein désert, à 1 500 kilomètres de Darwin et à 1 532 kilomètres d'Adélaïde.
La station télégraphique d'Alice Springs a été construite à mi chemin entre Darwin et Adélaïde en 1872 sur la ligne télégraphique transcontinentale.
Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve
Discover Alice Springs, one of Australia's most famous outback towns, surrounded by hundreds of kilometres of red desert; experience Aboriginal Australia.
Alice Springs,Northern Territory, Australia
Alice Springs,Northern Territory, Australia
Alice Springs is a remote town in Australia’s Northern Territory, halfway between Darwin and Adelaide, both 1,500km away. It’s a popular gateway for exploring the Red Centre, the country's interior desert region. Its 1872 origin as part of the Overland Telegraph Line (linking Darwin and Adelaide) is preserved in the vintage buildings and equipment at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve.
ALICE SPRINGS Top 20 Tourist Places | Alice Springs Tourism | AUSTRALIA
Alice Springs (Things to do - Places to Visit) - ALICE SPRINGS Top Tourist Places
City in Australia
Alice Springs is a remote town in Australia’s Northern Territory, halfway between Darwin and Adelaide, both 1,500km away. It’s a popular gateway for exploring the Red Centre, the country's interior desert region.
Its 1872 origin as part of the Overland Telegraph Line (linking Darwin and Adelaide) is preserved in the vintage buildings and equipment at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve.
ALICE SPRINGS Top 20 Tourist Places | Alice Springs Tourism
Things to do in ALICE SPRINGS - Places to Visit in Alice Springs
Follow us on Twitter
For Top Tourist Places, Videos Subscribe us on Youtube
Follow us on Facebook
ALICE SPRINGS Top 20 Tourist Places - Alice Springs, Australia, Oceania
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.
혼자서 미리보는 세계여행 - 호주(Australia)- 엘리스 스프링(Alice Springs)
Alice Springs is a remote town in Australia’s Northern Territory, halfway between Darwin and Adelaide, both 1,500km away. It’s a popular gateway for exploring the Red Centre, the country's interior desert region. Its 1872 origin as part of the Overland Telegraph Line (linking Darwin and Adelaide) is preserved in the vintage buildings and equipment at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve.
Weather: 13 °C, Wind SE at 11 km/h, 34% Humidity
Population: 25,186 (2011)
Barrow Creek, Old Telegraph Station, Northern Territory
Barrow Creek Telegraph Station, Northern Territory, Australia 2011
It is definitely worth a stop by Barrow Creek Roadhouse to make a visit to Barrow Creek Telegraph Station Historical Reserve. It is also about the halfway point between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek. The Telegraph Station which opened in the late 19th century ran for about 100 years. You can wander round freely in and out of the different buildings which are in good condition and historical information is displayed too.
Barrow Creek Telegraph Station. Northern Territory.
Stará telegrafní stanice, Severní teritorium, Austrálie
Alice Springs Telegraph Trails Mountain Biking
Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve
September 19, 2014
Eyre Bird Observatory
Walking 10 km through low forest from the escarpment to the Eyre Bird Observatory. More info' ↓
Australian Geographic - Western pygmy possum:
Dave and Amy's 4-wheel-drive journey down this track:
Google Maps satellite view:
Birdlife Australia's Eyre Bird Observatory web page:
During their nearly 2000 mile1841 journey overland from Adelaide to Albany, 26 year old Edward John Eyre and his party - companion John Baxter and three Aboriginal men - found fresh water two metres beneath a coastal sand dune, and camped there for a month, recovering from severe dehydration and exhaustion. This spot became known as Eyre's Sand Patch.
When the Inter-Colonial Telegraph Line reached the Patch in 1877, a weatherboard and corrugated iron building was erected to house a permanently-manned repeater station, and the spot was known as the Eyre Telegraph Station.
20 years later, in 1897, the station moved into a new limestone and corrugated iron building nearby until, in 1927 when the telegraph line moved 150 kilometres north to follow the Trans Australian Railway, the building was abandoned.
Fifty years later, in 1977, the limestone building was restored by volunteers with the support of the Post Office Historical Society and Birds Australia, using materials supplied by the WA Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and it now functions as a permanent bird observatory.
Honeyeaters who spend the summer in the deep south-west extend their range north and east in the winter to feast on the flowering mallee and, at Eyre, honeyeaters, silvereyes and other species are found wintering in the narrow coastal mallee strip. A colony of breeding penguins spends the summer west of Eyre at Twilight Cove. By 2008, 245 bird species had been recorded in the surrounding nature reserve.
Source:
Roger Buddridge,
Introduction: A Brief History pp 2 & 3
and Stephen Davies
In Search of a Field Station for Naturalists p. 20
in Eyre's Sand Patch to Eyre Bird Observatory 2008
Editor: Alma de Rebeira.
ISBN: 978-0-646-48972-8.
Publisher: AM & CPS de Rebeira
PO Box 113
Glen Forrest
Western Australia 6071.
(Also available from the Eyre Bird Observatory.)
Larapinta- Euro Ridge viewing
Larapinta Trail is located in central Australia, like a horizontal backbone of the Australia continent, it's the best place for all natural landscape lovers to visit. It's 223km in length and divided into 12 sections. The section which the film shows is section 1, and Euro Ridge is the most significant part of this section.
Section 1 starts from Alice Springs Old Telegraph Station Historical Reserve to Simpson's Gap, 23.8km long.
MCYs TRAVEL : AUSTRALIA - THE AMAZING OUTBACK [ HD ]
The history of the Australian Outback stretches back at least 50,000 years. In Aboriginal mythology, the Outback was created by ancient spirits who moved across the land, calling animals, plants, rocks and other landforms into being as they went. These stories belong to the Dreamtime and are part of the Outback's rich cultural history.
When the first English colonists came to Australia in the 1770s they settled on the continent's east coast. By the mid-1880s, the settlers had begun to explore Australia's arid interior, driven partly by a desire to discover what was unknown to them, and partly by a desire to realise the Outback's mineral and agricultural promise.
Australia's Outback history from 1880 onwards is a saga of exploration and development, demonstrating the triumph of a pioneering spirit.
Pastoralists followed in the explorers' footsteps, establishing Outback cattle stations in some cases as large as a European country. Gold, silver and opals provided more good reasons for the hardy and the enterprising to embrace the Outback's wild beauty. These men and women battled relentless heat, flash floods and deprivation. In doing so, they forged a unique identity characterised by a bone-dry sense of humour and an astounding spirit or adventure.
The Outback continues to be shaped by remarkable individuals and ancient cultures. Indigenous populations, along with drovers, swagmen, pastoralists, flying doctors, pioneering men and women, prospectors and shearers have all contributed to an Outback history that's rich, resilient and inspiring.
Uniquely Australian
Visit an historic cattle station. The descendants of the famous Australian pastoral family, the Duracks, can be found at Ray Station, near Quilpie in the far south-western corner of Queensland. The 600-sq km sheep and cattle property was settled in 1874 by Patsy and Sarah Tully (nee Durack), and it remains one of few properties in Australia never to have changed hands since white settlement.
Discover Coober Pedy's unique underground history. Opal prospectors at Coober Pedy came up with a great way to escape the desert heat - not only did they work underground, but they lived there too. These miners converted Coober Pedy's underground caves into fully-equipped homes and hotels, providingall the comforts found above ground. Visitors can sleep underground,as well as explore underground museums, potteries, opal shops, an art gallery and, of course, opal mines.
Explore the Outback's Indigenous history at Mungo National Park in New South Wales. The World Heritage-listed Willandra Lakes Region, with Mungo National Park at its centre, maintains a continuous record of human occupation dating back 40,000 years. Rain and wind have uncovered ancient fireplaces and hearths, as well as artefacts, stone tools and animal bones, providing some of the world's oldest evidence of homo sapiens.
Put yourself in the air with a 'Flying Doctor'. On 17 May 1928, an emergency call for help from the Outback town of Julia Creek was answered by Australia's first flying doctor. This airborne emergency service was started by a Presbyterian minister, Reverend John Flynn, who envisaged Outback Australia protected by 'a mantle of safety'. Visitors to the Broken Hill RFDS base, which is open to the public each day, can explore the Mantle of Safety Museum which showcases over 80 years of remarkable Outback history.
Take a walk along Silverton's Heritage trail. Built in 1880 on the back of the region's mineral wealth, Silverton in Outback New South Wales was once a booming silver-mining town. But the discovery of significantly larger mineral deposits at nearby Broken Hill proved to be Silverton's demise, and the town now stands as a ghostly monument to past dreams. Film-lovers may recognise it from scenes in Mad Max 2, A Town Like Alice, and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Visit the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve. The station marks the original site of the first European settlement in Alice Springs and was established in 1872 as part of the Overland Telegraph Line. It is the best preserved of the 12 stations along the line between Adelaide and Darwin. The town of Alice Springs takes its name from the waterhole a short distance to the east of the station buildings.
Adelaide to Darwin. Points of interest
Produced with CyberLink PowerDirector 17
The Adelaide to Darwin is a 3000 kilometre eachway road trip.
The Magnetic Termite mounds have been built by termites with their thin edges pointing north-south and broad backs east-west. This aspect minimises their exposure to the sun, keeping the mounds cool for the magnetic termites inside,
Alice Springs is a remote town in Australia’s Northern Territory, halfway between Darwin and Adelaide, both 1,500km away. It’s a popular gateway for exploring the Red Centre, the country's interior desert region. Its 1872 origin as part of the Overland Telegraph Line (linking Darwin and Adelaide) is preserved in the vintage buildings and equipment at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve.
The MacDonnell Ranges, a mountain range and an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and has an area of 3,929,444 hectares (9,709,870 acres). The range is a 644 km (400 mi) long series of mountains in central Australia, consisting of parallel ridges running to the east and west of Alice Springs.
Musiv by Zero-project
Museum collectors and carers: one collector’s story
Dr W. H. (Harry) Butler, WA Museum Fellow
Without collectors and carers, there would be no Museum collections or displays. Dr Butler describes some methods he used for field collection and the post collection processes.
WATER DOWN UNDER The Great Artesian Basin Story
Stretching from Cape York in the north, down to Dubbo and across to Coober Pedy, the Great Artesian Basin covers almost a quarter of the Australian continent, and it contains enough water to cover the world over.
Much remains to be known about this valuable recourse that has enabled life in inland Australia to develop over thousands of years.
Water Down Under is the vast and rich story of the Basin, told by the people who live on the Basin it self, and presented by National Geographic's Hayden Turner.
For more information please visit gabcc.org.au
The total video duration is 32 minutes.
AwA Red Kangaroos
Take an Adventure with Ambrose to see some Red Kangaroos in the Northern Territory of Australia. It was windy, so some wind noise can be heard...sorry ☹!
Words at War: Combined Operations / They Call It Pacific / The Last Days of Sevastopol
The Siege of Sevastopol took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. The campaign was fought by the Axis powers of Germany, Romania and Italy against the Soviet Union for control of Sevastopol, a port in Crimea on the Black Sea. On 22 June 1941 the Axis invaded the Soviet Union under Operation Barbarossa. The Axis land forces reached Crimea in the autumn, 1941, and overran the area. The only objective not in Axis hands was Sevastopol. Several attempts were made to secure the city in October and November 1941. A major attack was planned for late November, but bad weather and heavy rains delayed the Axis attack until 17 December 1941. Under the command of Erich von Manstein, the Axis forces were unable to capture Sevastopol in the first stage of operations. The Soviets launched an amphibious landing on the Crimean peninsula at Kerch in December 1941, to relieve the siege and force the Axis to divert forces to defend their gains. The operation saved Sevastopol for the time being, but the landing was checked and repulsed in May 1942.
At Sevastopol the Axis opted to conduct a siege until the summer, 1942, at which point they attacked the encircled Soviet forces by land, sea and air. On 2 June 1942, the Axis began their operation, codenamed Störfang (Sturgeon Catch). The Soviet Red Army and Black Sea Fleet held out for weeks under intense Axis bombardment. The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) played a vital part in the siege. The Luftwaffe made up for a shortage of Axis artillery, providing highly effective aerial bombardment in support of the ground forces. Finally, on the 4 July 1942, the remaining Soviet forces surrendered and the Axis seized the port. Both sides had suffered considerable losses during the siege.
With the Soviet forces neutralised, the Axis refocused their attention on the major summer campaign of that year, Operation Blue and the advance to the Caucasus oil fields.
Arltunga Ruins
Arltunga NT Early 1800's Miners huts ruins and Police Station Ruins
Binn's Track - South Section - Allan Whiting - February 2014
The Binn's Track is a 4WD alternative to the Stuart Highway between Mount Dare in SA and Timber Creek in the NT. outbacktravelaustralia.com.au took three D-Maxs up the track.
AwA Female Boxer Bark Mantid (praying mantis)
Take an Adventure with Ambrose to see a little native Australian, a female Boxer Bark Mantid!