East Side

Worth seeing in and around East Side

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Anzac Hill

   ANZAC Hill, at 608 meters, is located in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory of Australia and it is on the lands of the Arrernte people. The Arrernte name of ANZAC Hill have been recorded as both Untyeyetwelye and Atnelkentyarliweke.

   1.2 km · mountain in Alice Springs (Mparntwe), Northern Territory · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Women's Museum of Australia

   The Women's Museum of Australia, formerly the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, is a museum focused on the place of women in Australian history, situated in the restored HM Gaol and Labour Prison building in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

   2.1 km · Australian museum dedicated to identifying and preserving the place of women in Australian history · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Alice Springs Reptile Centre

   The Alice Springs Reptile Centre is a privately operated reptile centre and environmental education facility in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It contains the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory.

   2.5 km · zoo in Northern Territory, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Alice Springs Telegraph Station

   The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is located within the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, four kilometres north of the Alice Springs town centre in the Northern Territory of Australia. Established in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide, it is the original site of the first European settlement in central Australia.

   2.3 km · heritage-listed telegraph station in the Alice Springs, Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Olive Pink Botanic Garden

   Olive Pink Botanic Garden is a 16-hectare botanic garden in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, specialising in plants native to the arid central Australian region.

   1.8 km · botanical garden in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Central Australian Aviation Museum

   The Central Australian Aviation Museum is an aviation museum in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

   3.2 km · aviation museum in Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Alice Springs Public Library

   The Alice Springs Public Library is a public library service in the Northern Territory. The library provides traditional library services to the community of Alice Springs and is an essential part of the Central Australian community and receives more than 120,000 visitors every year.

   1.5 km · library in Northern Territory, Australia · Wikipedia
8. 08
   The Residency, Alice Springs

   The Residency is a historic one-storey house located in Alice Springs, Australia. The building holds significance for the people of Alice Springs as a tangible symbol of their brief legislative independence from the rest of the Northern Territory.

   1.4 km · building in Northern Territory, Australia · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Billy Goat Hill

   Billy Goat Hill, or Akeyulerre, is located in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia and, together with the nearby ANZAC Hill, has important Dreaming associations include two sisters, alongside uninitiated boys, who were travelling north and were engaged in flirtatious and humorous behaviour these sites; further north these interactions became violent. These two hills are the most prominent in the Central Business District of Alice Springs and, as such have been extensively used by Europeans and, as such, Billy Goat Hill is now very close to major roads and, for many years, housed the towns water towers.

   2 km · a hill in Alice Springs (Mparntwe) · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Todd Mall

    The Todd Mall is a mostly pedestrian mall in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia which serves as its "main street" and is one of the primary locations for shopping and leisure in the town. It contains many of the town's restaurants.

    1.4 km · shopping mall in Northern Territory, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to East Side

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Alice Springs railway station, 2 km

• Darwin → East Side

  1290 km · quickest by road, 16h · A$180–240
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  1330 km · quickest by air, 4h 49m · A$210–320
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• Broome → East Side

  1368 km · quickest by road, 30h 30m · A$330–435
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