Arltunga Historical Reserve

The site of Central Australia's first gold rush (1887), 110km east of Alice Springs. The reserve preserves ruins of the old police station, courthouse, batteries, and miners' camps. Self-guided trails wind through the ruins with interpretive signs. Gold was mined here until 1912. The site of the first major gold rush in Central Australia. The remote ruins offer an authentic window into the hardships of outback mining life in the 1880s–1910s.

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