Alice Springs Cemetery, N.T., Australia
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S 23° 42.256 E 133° 51.880
53K E 384256 N 7378053
Alice Springs General Cemetery
Waymark Code: WM14DK8
Location: Northern Territory, Australia
Date Posted: 06/17/2021
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The first burial, William Richey , occurred on January 26 1933 although the cemetery was not proclaimed as such until early March 1949, when it was formally known as ‘Alice Springs Cemetery’. In October 1966 the name of the cemetery was changed to the ‘Alice Springs General Cemetery’. Regular burials in the cemetery continued up until mid 1978, although the Cemetery was not formally closed until April 1995.
The graves of Albert Namatjira (Aboriginal painter from Hermannsburg), Harold Lasseter (who claimed to have found an as-yet undiscovered 7-mile-long gold reef in Central Australia) and anthropologist Olive Pink, who, eccentric to the last, is buried facing the opposite direction to everybody else.
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Alice Springs
Approximate number of graves: 1000
Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained
Cemetery Website: [Web Link]
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