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| A tour guide holds a tree dressed in period clothing at the Old Telegraph station in Alice Springs, the outback. The town is named after Alice, the wife of Charles Todd who was the Superintendent of Telegraphs after the construction of the telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin. It was completed in 1872. However at that time Alice Springs was called Stuart after explorer John McDouall Stuart who led the first expedition through the center of Australia and opened it up for white settlement. | |||
| Photograph © 2003 Andrew Kaufman | |||