Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the context of "Geographical centre"

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⭐ Core Definition: Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Alice Springs (Eastern Arrernte: Mparntwe, [ᵐbaⁿɖʷə]) is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement after Darwin and Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd (née Alice Gillam Bell), wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir Charles Todd. Known colloquially as The Alice or simply Alice, the town is situated roughly in Australia's geographic centre. It is nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin.

The area is also known locally 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.

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Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the context of Hermannsburg, Northern Territory

Hermannsburg, also known as Ntaria, is an Aboriginal community in Ljirapinta Ward of the MacDonnell Shire in the Northern Territory of Australia, 125 kilometres (78 mi); west southwest of Alice Springs, on the Finke River, in the traditional lands of the Western Arrarnta people.

Established as a Lutheran Aboriginal mission in 1877, linguist and anthropologist Carl Strehlow documented the local Western Arrernte language during his time there. The mission was known as Finke River Mission or Hermannsburg Mission, but the former term was later used to included a few more settlements, and from 2014 has applied to all Lutheran missions in Central Australia.

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← Hermannsburg, Northern Territory
LINKS TO (CHILDREN)
Eastern Arrernte language → Northern Territory → Australia → Darwin, Northern Territory → Palmerston, Northern Territory → William Mills (surveyor) → Birth name → Charles Todd (pioneer) → Geographical centre → Equidistant → Adelaide → Indigenous Australians → Arrernte people →