DAY 27a
Week 4
ALICE SPRINGS ~ The Overland Telegraph Station (Northern Territory, AUS)
Saturday October 9th, 2010
TODAYS MILEAGE – 16 miles or 26 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 4040 miles or 6502 kilometres
The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is the best preserved of the 12 stations along the Overland Telegraph Line, which was established in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide.
The site marks the original site of the Alice Springs settlement, which took its name after the waterhole a short distance to the east of the station.
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