Alice Springs Cemetery, N.T., Australia - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

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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