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Central Australia, also known as the Alice Springs Region, is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory of Australia. The term Central Australia is used to describe an area centred on Alice Springs. It is sometimes referred to as Centralia; likewise the people of the area are sometimes called Centralians. The region is located in the southern part of the Northern Territory spanning from the west on the Western Australian Border to the east on the Queensland border.
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  • 1. Alice Springs Desert Park Alice Springs
    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 tens of thousands of years. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd , wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir Charles Todd. Alice Springs had an urban population of almost 24,000 as at the 2016 Census which makes up approximately 10% 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...
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  • 2. West MacDonnell National Park West Macdonnell National Park
    West MacDonnell is a national park in the Northern Territory due west of Alice Springs and 1234 km south of Darwin. It extends along the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs. The popular extended walk, the Larapinta Trail, runs east-west along the linear park, following the West MacDonnell Ranges. The park includes many tourist attractions along its 250 kilometre length including Ormiston Pound, the Ellery Creek Bighole, Glen Helen, Simpsons Gap, Standley Chasm, Mount Sonder, Serpentine Gorge, the Ochre Pits and Redbank Gorge.
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  • 3. The Kangaroo Sanctuary Alice Springs
    This is a complete listing of full-length episodes and films from the Nickelodeon American animated television series The Wild Thornberrys.
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  • 4. Mount Gillen Alice Springs
    Eucalyptus gillenii, commonly known as the Mallee red gum, Mount Lindsay mallee, Mount Lindsay gum or Mount Gillen mallee is a mallee that is native to inland Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.The multi-stemmed mallee typically grown to a height of 3 to 7 metres and a width of 2 to 6 metres . It is a hardy grower and is both frost and drought tolerance The juvenile leaves are dull, green to blue-green in colour with a lanceolate to falcate shape. These later become adult leaves that are dull, green to blue-green are lanceolate to falcate with a blade that is 180 millimetres in length and 28 mm wide and still lanceolate to falcate. It forms creamy white axillary flowers that are held erect in groups of seven to nine. These are followed by globular fruit that is 1...
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  • 5. Alice Springs Reptile Centre Alice Springs
    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 tens of thousands of years. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd , wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir Charles Todd. Alice Springs had an urban population of almost 24,000 as at the 2016 Census which makes up approximately 10% 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...
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  • 6. Finke Gorge National Park Alice Springs
    Finke Gorge is a national park in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1318 km south of Darwin. The Park covers an area of 458 km2 , and includes the impressive desert oasis Palm Valley, home to a diverse range of plant species, many of which are rare and unique to the area. There are good opportunities for bushwalking and bushcamping in the park.
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  • 7. Ochre Pits Alice Springs
    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 Indigenous Australians in ceremonies and played an important role in the continent's economy, being traded with neighbouring clans and countries, 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...
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  • 9. Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation Reserve Red Centre
    The Ewaninga Conservation Reserve is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia consisting of an area of low sand dunes, rocky outcrops and a claypan about 35 kilometres south of Alice Springs. The conservation reserve was gazetted on 20 November 1996. The claypan is a slightly concave surface approximately 100m across. It retains water after even light rain, thus attracting many birds and animals. The claypan and surrounding outcrops are also a significant archaeological site. The conservation reserve contains many prehistoric abraded and pecked engravings that provide an outstanding example of central Australian rock art. The main feature of the area is a set of about 1000 petroglyphs, distributed among the rock outcrops to the south and south-east of the claypan. Most of th...
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  • 11. Ormiston Gorge West Macdonnell National Park
    Ormiston Pound is a ring of mountains in the Northern Territory of Australia punctuating the MacDonnell Ranges, in the West MacDonnell National Park, approximately 135 kilometres west of Alice Springs . It lies at roughly the half way point in the Larapinta Trail and has views from its circumference of Mount Sonder, Gosses Bluff crater and the surrounding range. The Pound, a ring of mountains, is dominated by Mount Giles, which forms its eastern boundary. The western boundary is formed by the Ormiston Gorge, a popular tourist destination. The pound is accessible from a road in the west, which travels between Glen Helen and Alice Springs. There is a waterhole at the bottom near the gorge, as well as several lookouts. The entire pound encompasses 46.55 square kilometres . The Finke River pas...
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  • 12. Olive Pink Botanic Garden Alice Springs
    Olive Pink Botanic Garden is a 16-hectare botanic garden in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, specialising in plants native to the arid central Australian region.
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  • 13. Chambers Pillar Alice Springs
    Chambers Pillar is a sandstone formation some 160 km south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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  • 15. Corroboree Rock Conservation Area Alice Springs
    Corroboree Rock Conservation Reserve is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located approximately 34 kilometres east of Alice Springs and 370 kilometres north east of Yulara in the East MacDonnell Ranges. The reserve is surrounded by the Undoolya pastoral lease which operates as a cattle station. The reserve takes its name from a column of grey dolomite of great significance to the local Aboriginal people. The rock is part of the Bitter Springs formation that was deposited in salt lakes 800 million years ago. It is a sacred site to the Eastern Arrente peoples Flora found on the reserve include spinifex and senna on the ridges, with bloodwood, Supplejack, Red Mallee and Whitewood are found around the base of the rock.
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