--- title: "Irlpme – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Irlpme, Australia: Irlpme is an outer suburb of the town of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, Australia. Nearby: Alice Springs Telegraph Station.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irlpme" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irlpme.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Suburb of Alice Springs, the Northern Territory, Australia # Irlpme Irlpme is an outer suburb of the town of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, Australia. The place Irlpme is an outer suburb of the town of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is on the traditional Country of the Arrernte people. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irlpme), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Irlpme One place 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. 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. 3.4 km · heritage-listed telegraph station in the Alice Springs, Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Springs_Telegraph_Station) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Irlpme - Darwin → Irlpme 1284 km · quickest by road, 15h 54m · A$180–240 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/darwin-to-irlpme) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Darwin&to=Irlpme) - Adelaide → Irlpme 1335 km · quickest by air, 4h 57m · A$230–340 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/adelaide-to-irlpme) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Adelaide&to=Irlpme) - Broome → Irlpme 1363 km · quickest by road, 30h 24m · A$325–435 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/broome-to-irlpme) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Broome&to=Irlpme) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Irlpme) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Irlpme Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Irlpme. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Go next Larapinta Drive and Ross Highway are sealed for a couple hundred kilometres in each direction, but after that they convert to dirt roads which you will need a 4x4 vehicle to access. - Go next There is a web of dirt trails - sometimes called unsealed roads - which surrounds Alice Springs, and some of the nicest places within a few hours drive will require a four-wheel drive vehicle (4x4) to get to. From [Wikivoyage: Alice Springs](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Alice_Springs), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Kangaroo Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kangaroo-island) AU 9 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,384 km 2. [K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kgari) AU 8 ways of moving, 31 sources 1,957 km 3. [Wakatobi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wakatobi) ID 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 2,317 km 4. [Bruny Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bruny-island) AU 11 ways of moving, 24 sources 2,507 km 5. [Gili Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gili-islands) ID 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 2,547 km If you know how people move in Irlpme – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cirlpme&title=Irlpme&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Firlpme), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Irlpme - [Braitling](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/braitling) suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 3.2 km [The place page for Irlpme](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/irlpme) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Australia](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-AU) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irlpme, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt