Alice Springs Area

Distance shapes almost everything here, and nowhere shows it better than the School of the Air, where you can sit in on a real lesson delivered by radio and satellite to kids scattered across a territory the size of a small country. The Royal Flying Doctor Service keeps its base a short walk away, cockpit and medical bay open for a proper look at the same service that first took flight further north in Cloncurry. At Alice Springs Desert Park, reptiles, birds and nocturnal animals thrive in habitats built to prove the desert is anything but empty. This is a town built entirely around solving the problem of distance.