Pictures taken to the south of Alice Springs about 100 km
One of the remaining telegraph poles for the telegraph line that went from Alice Springs Telegraph Station south towards Port Augusta (north of Adelaide). It even has some of the wire dangling from the pole's insulator.
The telegraph line ran from Adelaide north to Darwin passing through Alice Springs in the 1870's. The telegraph line was essential for the growth of the populated areas of Australia (now in South Australia and Victoria) so that communications could be made with England via the telegraph network already to Singapore. The crossing of the continent from out of Port Augusta to Darwin posed the largest obstacle due to the inhospitable nature of the outback. The town of Alice Springs, then called Sturt, had it's foundation established with the installation of the telegraph station.
