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Olive PinkBotanic Garden

ALICE SPRINGS & RED CENTRE, DESERT SPRINGS, NORTHERN TERRITORY

Alice Springs & Red Centre, Desert Springs, Northern TerritoryOpen every day, 8am–6pmGet Directions

Olive Pink spent years living among the spinifex and mulga she planted here, alongside Warlpiri man Johnny Jambijimba Yannarilyi, on land she petitioned to lease in 1956. The result: 16 hectares, 600-plus arid-zone species, and a registered Arrernte sacred site, Tharrarletneme, with views across the MacDonnell Ranges. The garden outlasted its founder by half a century. It shows.

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27 Tuncks Road
Address checked against the operator’s own website, 20 September 2026.
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