Editing Alice Springs (section)

{{Short description| Town in the Northern Territory, Australia }}
{{About|the town in Australia|the local government area|Town of Alice Springs|the Australian photographer under the same name|June Newton|the racehorse|Alice Springs (horse)}}
{{redirect|The Alice||The Alice (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type                = Town
| name                = Alice Springs
| native_name         = Mparntwe ({{IPAc|aer|ᵐbaⁿɖʷə}})
| native_name_lang    = aer
| state               = nt
| lga                 = [[Town of Alice Springs|Alice Springs Town Council]]
| mayor               = Matt Paterson
| image               = Alice Springs, 2015 (01).JPG
| caption             = View of Alice Springs from Anzac Hill, with [[MacDonnell Ranges]] and [[Heavitree Gap]] in the background
| pop                 = 25912
| pop_year            = 2021
| pop_footnotes       = <ref name=ABSSUA>{{cite web|title=Alice Springs 2021 Census All persons QuickStats|url=https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/LGA70200 |publisher=[[Australian Bureau of Statistics]]|access-date=1 March 2023}} </ref>
| poprank             = 
| density             = 
| coordinates         = {{coord|23|42|0|S|133|52|12|E|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in the Northern Territory
| area                = 327.5
| area_footnotes      = <ref name="ABSSUAProf">{{cite web |title=2011 Census Community Profiles: Alice Springs |url=http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/communityprofile/7001 |website=ABS Census |publisher=[[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] |access-date=15 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031828/http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/communityprofile/7001 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> (2011 urban)
| est                 = 1872
| timezone            = [[UTC9:30|ACST]]
| utc                 = +9:30
| dist1               = 1499
| location1           = [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]]
| dist2               = 1532
| location2           = Adelaide
| postcode            = 0870-0872
| elevation           = 545
| stategov            = [[Electoral division of Araluen|Araluen]]
| stategov2           = [[Electoral division of Braitling|Braitling]]
| stategov3           = [[Electoral division of Namatjira|Namatjira]]
| stategov4           = [[Electoral division of Gwoja|Gwoja]]
| fedgov              = [[Division of Lingiari|Lingiari]]
| fedgov2             = 
| maxtemp             = 28.8
| mintemp             = 13.2
| rainfall            = 282.8
}}

'''Alice Springs''' ({{langx|aer|Mparntwe}}<ref>[https://alicesprings.nt.gov.au/about-alice-springs/living-in-alice-springs/local-community-culture  Local Community & Culture] Alice Springs Town Council. Retrieved 26 August 2022.</ref>) is a town in the [[Northern Territory]], [[Australia]]; it is the third-largest settlement after [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] and [[Palmerston, Northern Territory|Palmerston]]. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor [[William Mills (surveyor)|William Whitfield Mills]] after Alice, Lady Todd ({{nee|Alice Gillam Bell}}), wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir [[Charles Todd (pioneer)|Charles Todd]]. Known colloquially as '''The Alice''' or simply '''Alice''', the town is situated roughly in Australia's [[Geographical centre|geographic centre]]. It is nearly [[equidistant]] from [[Adelaide]] and [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]].<ref>[http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/dimensions/centre-of-australia-states-territories.html Geoscience Australia Centre of Australia, States and Territories updated July 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140212130456/http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/dimensions/centre-of-australia-states-territories.html |date=12 February 2014}} "Officially, there is no centre of Australia. This is because there are many complex but equally valid methods that can determine possible centres of a large, irregularly shaped area especially one that is curved by the earth's surface." See the Geoscience Australia page for further details.</ref>

The area is also known locally as {{lang|aer|Mparntwe}} to its [[Indigenous Australians|original inhabitants]], the [[Arrernte people|Arrernte]], who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for tens of thousands of years.

Alice Springs had a population of 33,990 as of June 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Springs Population 2024 {{!}} Population Australia |url=https://www.population.net.au/alice-springs-population/ |access-date=2024-09-13 |language=en-US}}</ref> The town's population accounts for approximately 10 percent of the population of the Northern Territory.<ref name="census16">{{Census 2016 AUS|id=UCL712001 |name=Alice Springs (Urban Centre) |access-date=18 December 2017 |quick=on}}</ref>

The town straddles the usually dry [[Todd River]] on the northern side of the [[MacDonnell Ranges]]. The surrounding region is known as Central Australia, or the [[Red Centre]], an arid environment consisting of several deserts. Alice Springs experiences a wide temperature range, with an average maximum in summer of {{convert|35.6|C}} and an average minimum in winter of {{convert|5.1|C}}.<ref>{{cite web |year=2011 |url=http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_015590.shtml |title=Climate statistics for Alice Springs Airport |publisher=Bureau of Meteorology |access-date=19 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602125448/http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_015590.shtml |archive-date=2 June 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>