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Alice Springs is a town and the second largest centre in the Northern Territory of Australia. Popularly known as "the Alice" or simply "Alice", it had a population of 26,486 in 2005.

Averaging 576 metres above sea level, the town is nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin, close to the geographic centre of Australia. The site is known as Mparntwe to its traditional inhabitants, the Arrernte, who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for more than 50,000 years.

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Credit: Christian Vasold

Litchfield National Park, covering approximately 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi), is near the township of Batchelor, 100 kilometres (60 mi) south-west of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Each year the park attracts over 260,000 visitors who come to enjoy the crystal clear waterfalls which cascade from a sandstone plateau called the Tabletop Range, the idyllic year-round swimming areas, the intriguing magnetic termite mounds, and the bushwalking tracks. Proclaimed a national park in 1986, it is named after Fred Litchfiel, a Territory pioneer, who explored areas of the Northern Territory from Escape Cliffs on the Timor Sea to the Daly River in 1864.

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