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Specialty Museum Attractions In Alice Springs

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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 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 pop...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Alice Springs

  • 1. Road Transport Hall of Fame Alice Springs
    The National Road Transport Hall of Fame is a transport museum based in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.The future of the National Road Transport Hall of Fame is unknown with the resignation of CEO Liz Martin.
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  • 3. Central Australia Aviation Museum Alice Springs
    The Central Australian Aviation Museum is an aviation museum in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. The current Museum Building was erected in 1940/41 and served as the main base of operations for Connellan Airways from 1939 to 1968. Due to the limitations of this Townsite Aerodrome for larger aircraft operations and the expansion of Alice Springs, the move to the present airport was eventually forced upon Connellan Airways. The larger Bellman Hangar, which occupied the site next to the present hangar was moved to the present airport and all operations ceased at Townsite by June 1968. The Townsite Hangar was left derelict and the air strips disappeared under the rapid expansion of Alice Springs. The houses and road fronting the Museum are on the old main runway. By 1977 little tr...
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  • 4. Adelaide House Museum Alice Springs
    Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2017, Adelaide had an estimated resident population of 1,333,927. Adelaide is home to more than 75 percent of the South Australian population, making it the most centralised population of any state in Australia. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province ...
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  • 5. The Residency Alice Springs
    The Residency holds significance for the people of Alice Springs as a tangible symbol of their brief legislative independence from the rest of the Northern Territory. It also provided a hub of social and cultural activities for the local residents. John Charles Cawood was appointed Government Resident of Central Australia in 1926 and was to be based at the capital, Stuart .
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  • 6. Old Ghan Museum Alice Springs
    The Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum is a railway museum in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, with a tourist railway attached. It is operated by the Road Transport Historical Society, which also operates the adjacent National Road Transport Hall of Fame. The museum contains narrow gauge equipment from the original Central Australian Railway which operated to Alice Springs from 1929 to c1980 until replaced by a flood-free standard gauge line.
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