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Alice Springs

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Alice Springs

Town in Northern Territory, Australia, 1,531 km/951 mi north of Adelaide and 1,490 km/926 mi south of Darwin; population (1996) 22,488. It is located in the Macdonnell Ranges and is almost the central point of Australia. Alice Springs is the main grazing and mining region in central Australia, and the principal education centre for the southern half of the Northern Territory. It is also a tourist centre for Ayers Rock, 450 km/283 mi to the southwest.

Alice Springs provides a ‘School of the Air’ (school conducted by two-way radio between teacher and students in outlying areas), and is a base for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Adelaide is linked by air, road, and rail, and Darwin can be reached by air and the 3,021 km/1,877 mi long Stuart Highway. Tourism has given a commercial boost to Aboriginal art in Alice Springs. Until 1933 the town was called Stuart.



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In the past JAL has operated charter flights from main airports in Japan to Alaska (US), Koror (Palau), Prague (Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary), Ulaan Baatar (Mongolia), Alice Springs (Australia), and from regional airports in Japan to Hawaii, Guam and Macao.
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While Alice Springs itself (population 30,000) is little more than a collection of art galleries, pubs, and cafes baking in the sun (you can forget any Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert fantasies you may be harboring; that was a movie), it's a comfortable base for adventuring into the surrounding wilderness.
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TOURIST TIME: Have students choose a place in Australia to "visit" (some examples: the Great Barrier Reef, Ayers Rock, Nambung National Park, Alice Springs, Tasmania).
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