Place Names Register Extract

Stuart

Extract date: 09/06/2026

Name	Stuart
Type Designation	Town
Place Id	23631
Place Type	Feature
Status	Historical
Date Registered
Location (Datum GDA94)
	Latitude: -23° 41' S (Decimal degrees -23.69945)
	Longitude: 133° 52' E (Decimal degrees 133.88075)
Locality / Suburb
	Alice Springs
Local Government Area
	Alice Springs Town Council
History/Origin	Government Surveyor David Lindsay surveyed the township in 1888 and named it Stuart after John McDouall Stuart the first European to blaze the trail from SA across the centre of Australia to the north coast. After the railway arrived in Stuart in 1929, the town grew and a new post office was opened in Railway Terrace in 1932. The post office having previously been at Alice Springs, was called Alice Springs and the town Stuart. However, the following year (1933), the town was gazetted as Alice Springs.

Register & Gazettal information

Date	Gazettal	Comment
	(None Found)

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