Portal:Northern Territory

Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology The NORTHERN TERRITORY PORTAL Template:/box-header Template:/Intro Template:/box-footer Olive Muriel Pink (born 17 March 1884 in Hobart, Tasmania – died 6 July 1975 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory) was an Australian botanical illustrator, anthropologist, gardener, and activist for aboriginal rights. Pink spent much of her life agitating and being a passionate advocate for improved rights and conditions for Australian aborigines. She never married, having lost a 'very dear friend' Captain Harold Southern who was killed at Gallipoli in 1915. In her later years, Pink became largely resigned to the minimal progress she had made and concentrated on botanical pursuits and established the currently named Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Alice Springs. Alice Springs, Northern Territory Alice Springs is a town and the second largest centre in the Northern Territory of Australia. Popularly known as "the Alice" or simply "Alice", it had a population of 26,486 in 2005. Averaging 576 metres above sea level, the town is nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin, close to the geographic centre of Australia. The site is known as Mparntwe to its traditional inhabitants, the Arrernte, who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for more than 50,000 years. The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: What are portals? List of portals Featured portals