Place Names Register Extract
Alice Springs
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Alice Springs |
|---|---|
| Type Designation | Suburb |
| Place Id | 22272 |
| Place Type | Administrative Area |
| Status | Registered |
| Date Registered | 3 April 2007 |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -23° 41' S (Decimal degrees -23.6994) | |
| Longitude: 133° 52' E (Decimal degrees 133.88) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| (None Found) | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Alice Springs Town Council | |
| History/Origin | Alice Springs City as a suburb is so named because it is the central business district of the Town which in turn derives its name from the waterhole of the same name. The Alice Springs waterhole was discovered and named by Government Surveyor W W Mills in March 1871, whilst exploring the MacDonnell Ranges during the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line, after Alice Todd, wife of the Superintendent of Telegraphs, Sir Charles Todd. The Alice Springs Telegraph Station was built adjacent to the waterhole. 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 in 1932 the "Alice Springs" post office was moved into the town of Stuart. This duplicate naming caused confusion and the following year (1933), the town was renamed Alice Springs. The suburb boundary, as approved on 8 March 2007, is deliniated on CP 5075. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
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| 03/04/2007 | Date of Registration | |
| 04/04/2007 | NTG 14 | Notice of Naming |