The Funky Site - Alice Springs

Northern Territory - Alice Springs

Created July 2001, last updated July 2001.

Alice Springs is located in the heart of Australia in the Northern Territory, and despite the common misconception of it being desert it is located at the junction of two rivers, the river Charles and the river Todd. For many tourists, Alice Springs is merely a staging post for the Uluru Katja National Park, until recently known as Ayers Rock but there is more to it than that.

Attractions

Alice Spring roadsign

Bird

Dry river

Kings Canyon

Road to nowhere

Simpsons Gap

Termite mound

Water Wheel

The Devils Marbles

Located on a gently undulating plain of quartz gravel, 100 kilometres south of the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, they are giant granite domes, some standing isolated, others balancing precariously one top of another. They are the only distinctive natural landmark for hundreds of square kilometres. The marbles are buried from less than a metre to as much as 6 metres in diameter. They are derived from a single mass of granite which crystallised more then 150 million years ago.