Alice Springs

Alice Springs is the second largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Often referred to as "the Alice" or simply "Alice", the town is roughly located at the geographic centre of Australia near the southern border of the Northern Territory. The site is known as Mparntwe to the local Aboriginal people, the Arrernte, who have lived in the area for thousands of years.

Alice Springs has a population of 27,481 people or around 12 percent of the Northern Territory population and is nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin.

Alice Springs straddles the normally dry Todd River that runs along the edge of the MacDonnell Ranges. The region where Alice Springs is located is known as Central Australia, or the Red Centre, and is an arid environment consisting of several different deserts. In Alice Springs, temperatures can vary by up to 28 °C (50 °F) and rainfall can vary quite dramatically from year to year. In summer, the average maximum temperature is 36.6 °C (97.9 °F), whereas in winter the average minimum temperature can be 7.5 °C (45.5 °F).