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# Alice Springs

Alice Springs is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement in the Northern Territory after Darwin and Palmerston.

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## Every way there

- Darwin → Alice Springs 1290 km · quickest by road, 15h 58m · A$180–240 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/darwin-to-alice-springs) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Darwin&to=Alice+Springs)
- Adelaide → Alice Springs 1329 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · A$210–320 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/adelaide-to-alice-springs) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Adelaide&to=Alice+Springs)
- Broome → Alice Springs 1367 km · quickest by road, 30h 27m · A$325–435 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/broome-to-alice-springs) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Broome&to=Alice+Springs)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Alice Springs, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Alice Springs has

- N Scheduled flights nearest airport DRW is 1294 km away
- F Trains and coaches 34 feeds listed in the Mobility Database, not compiled yet (Translink Magnetic Island, TransLink Maryborough-Hervey Bay, TransLink North Stradbroke Island)
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

-23.700°, 133.870°

The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd, wife of the telegraph pioneer Charles Todd. The town is situated roughly in Australia's geographic centre, nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin.

How locals move

## Getting around Alice Springs the local way

- 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Springs), CC BY-SA 4.0.


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