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Alice Springs

& Macdonnell Ranges region.

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Henbury Meteorite Craters. Locals at the waterhole. School of the Air - Alice Springs "In Class" ANZAC Hill lookout. Heavitree Gap - The Stuart Highway and the Ghan railway line pass through the 'Gap'.
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The 'CBD' of Alice Springs Ewaninga Rock carvings just South of the town. Countryside around "The Alice" The road south to Chamber's Pillar - long, red, soft & dusty. .... then it gets softer !
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.... then there are the station gates. The rule is "leave it as you found it.." Chamber's Pillar. Explorers and pioneers have carved their names into this rock pillar for the last 130 years. Castle Rock - near Chamber's Pillar One more 'curious' local. Coroborree Rock, East of the town.
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Rev. John Flynn's grave. The Twin Gum trees, made famous by Albert Namatjira Namatjira's grave - Alice Springs Cemetry Simpsons Gap - one of the many eroded gorges in the outback. Standley Chasm. The sun only shines into the chasm for about ten minutes a day.
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Rainbow Valley - spectacular colours in the rocks. Mushroom Rock - adjacent Rainbow Valley. Finke Gorge, on the way into Palm Valley. The 'road' into Palm Valley Magnificent palms grow wild in the middle of an outback gorge.
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The 'road' (Finke River bed) out of Palm Valley Gosse Bluff meteor crater. Glen Helen Gorge water hole. Ellery Creek Big Hole. Used as a swimming spot for the locals. Hermannsberg Mission original building.
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Ochre pits in a gorge just out of Alice Springs. Aboriginal people have used this site to gather coloured ochres for thousands of years. A grove of "Sturt Desert Pea" growing in the nature strip in Alice Springs. The original Overland Telegraph Station site out of Alice Springs. Hand feeding Black-footed rock wallabies at sunset - Heavitree Gap park. The "Tropic of Capricorn" marker on the Stuart Highway, north of Alice Springs.

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