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…showed last 75 words of 1352 total…and in 1933 the name changed to the more popular Alice Springs. From the town that began in 1871 as a convenient place for a repeater station on the Overland Telegraph between Adelaide and Darwin it has turned into one of Australia's largest tourist destinations with Uluru "Ayers Rock" right near it. The community is growing as can be seen when you compare the population today to the one when Alice Springs was just a telegraph line.