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Australia vacations should be a trip that you remember for the rest of your life. To make sure that your Australia vacations is everything that it should be there are a few places that you wont want to miss when you are on your Australia.

Australia tourist attractions will never let you be bored during your stay. One of the most popular Australia tourist attractions is a place called “Alice Springs”.

About Alice Springs
Alice Springs is the second largest city in the Northern Territory of Australia. Popularly known as “the Alice” or simply “Alice”, Alice Springs is situated in the geographic centre of Australia near the southern border of the Northern Territory. 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.

There are six suburbs altogether in Alice Springs which are close to the Alice Springs town centre. Alice Springs is mostly residential.

The town of Alice Springs straddles the usually dry Todd River on the northern side of the MacDonnell Ranges. The region where Alice Springs is located is known as Central Australia, or the Red Centre, and is an arid environment consisting of several different deserts.

Temperatures
In Alice Springs, temperatures can vary by up to 28 °C (82 °F) and rainfall can vary quite dramatically from year to year. In summer, the average maximum temperature is in the high 30s, whereas in winter the average minimum temperature can be 7.5 °C (45.5 °F).

Alice Springs Attractions
The town of Alice Springs itself is very tiny compared to the cities of Australia on the coast but it has so much to see and do that it takes more than a day to explore everything. Alice Springs Desert Park is a true Australian Outback attraction and the sunsets over the park are famous.

While you are on your Australia vacations in Alice Springs you wont want to miss the famed Museum of Central Australia the Old Stuart Town Goal and at the Alice Springs Memorial Cemetery which is the final resting place of many of Australias famous citizens including Olive Pink and Harold Lasseter. One of the biggest attractions in the Alice Springs area is Uluru a giant but gorgeous rock.

Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park Watarrka National Park and Kings Canyon are another Australia tourist attractions which are close to Alice Springs.

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Here is the information about Australia in sort to help you to plan your Australia tours

* The lowest annual rainfall occurs at Lake Eyre in South Australia, with an annual mean precipitation of about 100mm.
* The highest annual rainfall occurs at Tully in Queensland, with an annual mean precipitation of 4400mm.
* The lowest overnight ground temperatures recorded in Australia were at Canberra with -15.1 degrees, and Stanthorpe in Queensland with -11.0 degrees.
* The foggiest capital city in Australia is Canberra with an annual average of 47 fog days, Brisbane with 20 days, and Darwin with 2 days.
* Melville Island (5698km square), near Darwin, is the largest Island in Australian Waters (apart from Tasmania).
* The highest point in Australia is the top of Mt Kosciusko in New South Wales (2230 metres).
* The lowest point in Australia is 15 metres below sea level at Lake Eyre in South Australia.
* The largest lakes in Australia include Lake Eyre (9500km2), Lake Torrens (5900km2) and Lake Gairdner (4300km2) which are all in South Australia.
* The largest artificial lake in Australia is Lake Argyle (700km2) which is in Western Australia.
* The Deepest lake in Australia is Lake St Clair.
* The Murray River is the longest river in Australia at 2520km, combining with the Darling and Upper Darling Rivers to form the Murray-Darling basin. The Murray Darling extends over 15% of the continent, and serving 4 States and the ACT with water. The Murray also supports about 1/3 of Australia’s agricultural production, supports 50% of Australia’s sheep and croplands, and 25% of beef and dairy herds, contains about 62% of the country’s irrigated land and supplies 50% of South Australia’s water.
* The continental shelf below Australia varies in width between 30km and 240km.

Make you vacation plan to Australia such that you don’t miss major Australia tourist attractions