Alice Springs General Cemetery
| Location | |
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| The Cemetery is located at Lot 1027 (Res 1216), Town of Alice Springs. | 
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| Gazettal Date | |
| 24 September 2008 Northern Territory Government Gazette No.G38 |
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| Description | |
| The cemetery is divided into nine sections, each separated by north-south and east-west thoroughfares of compacted gravel and earth. Sections were initially based on religious denominations although there are exceptions. Generally, each section is divided into 12 rows designated A to L and each row is further subdivided into plots. | |
| Statement of Heritage Value | |
The Alice Springs General Cemetery is of significance to the Territory and is valued by the community principally as the last resting place of many individuals and families who played an important pioneering role in the development of the Territory’s pastoral, mining and transport industries, arts and culture, and the areas of education, law and order. Individuals interred in the Cemetery include noted Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira and Territory architect, Beni Carr Glynn Burnett. Although not officially proclaimed as a Cemetery until 1949, burials occurred between 1933 up until 1995 when the cemetery was closed with exceptions. The relatively open, simple, yet formal Cemetery layout is a reminder that even after the arrival of the railway in 1929 life in the Centre continued to be characterised by harsh and basic conditions. |
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| Further Reading | |
| To be provided. | |
