Place Names Register Extract

Meyers Hill

Extract date: 07/02/2025

Name Meyers Hill
Type Designation Hill
Place Id 15026
Place Type Feature
Status Registered
Date Registered 3 October 1962
Location (Datum GDA94)  
Latitude: -23° 42' S (Decimal degrees -23.7057)
Longitude: 133° 53' E (Decimal degrees 133.8863)
Locality / Suburb  
  Desert Springs
Local Government Area  
  Alice Springs Town Council
History/Origin Charles Meyers arrived in Central Australia in about 1891 and established a business as a saddler in Stuart township. Annie, his eventual wife, arrived in 1896. Their marriage was performed by a missionary from Hermannsburg and took place in the old Stuart Arms Hotel. Mrs Meyers went south for some years while their children were being educated, but returned in 1924 and started her well-known guesthouse "Myrtle Villa".

The hill / ridge is at the northern end of what is now Olive Pink Boranic Gardens is also known as Annie Meyers Hill and has the Arrente name of Tharrarletneme.

Register & Gazettal information

Date Gazettal Comment
03/10/1962 NTG46

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