World Distances

Keen to See Alice Springs, But it Was Closed

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August 5th 2006
We messed up with Alice Springs when we scheduled our itinerary. Given that the Uluru and Kings Canyon tour would take the whole of three days (see The Slow Pace of The Mature Peoples' Tour), it left only a few hours each side of it to look round Alice Springs. Unlike Darwin (see Darwin, But Not as I Remembered It) that was no where near enough time, sadly. When we first arrived it was starting t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more