Garden Cemetery
The Alice Springs Garden Cemetery is Alice Springs’ most recently established cemetery, having opened in 1974.
Situated off the south Stuart Highway, this cemetery was established to provide ample space, meeting the needs of the community for several generations.
Close to 3 hectares in size, the Garden Cemetery comprises of 29 sections with between 6 and 8 rows per section.
ALICE SPRINGS GARDEN CEMETERY INDEX TO BURIALS
The list below has been prepared to help you find your friends and loved ones.
We have taken care to be as accurate as possible but if you find any errors or have any queries, please contact us at astc@astc.nt.gov.au
Garden Cemetery Burial Register
Garden Cemetery Layout June 2023
Memorial (General) Cemetery
The Alice Springs Memorial (General Cemetery is on located on Memorial Avenue, adjacent to the Aviation Museum and behind the Araluen Arts Centre.
The graves of Albert Namatjira (Aboriginal painter from Hermannsburg), Harold Lasseter (who claimed to have found an as-yet undiscovered 7‑mile-long gold reef in Central Australia) and anthropologist Olive Pink, who, eccentric to the last, is buried facing the opposite direction to everybody else.
The Memorial Cemetery is Heritage-listed. Burials were restricted when the new Garden Cemetery opened.
No burials are accepted at the Memorial Cemetery unless you hold an “Exclusive Right of Burial Certificate”.
Ashes can be placed into a Family Members Plot at a cost.
If you require an Islamic plot, there is a Mohammedan section in this cemetery.
ALICE SPRINGS MEMORIAL CEMETERY INDEX TO BURIALS
The list below has been prepared to help you find your friends and loved ones.
We have taken care to be as accurate as possible but if you find any errors or have any queries, please contact us at astc@astc.nt.gov.au
Memorial Cemetery Burial Index
Memorial Cemetery Layout
Please call (08) 8950 0534 for all enquiries.
Stuart Cemetery
This was the first official cemetery in Alice Springs and holds the remains of many of our early pioneers.
It’s believed over 100 people were buried in this small cemetery on George Crescent, but only 40 names of the deceased are now known.
Some of the notable people buried here include Peter Mahomet — the first Afghan cameleer to come to Alice Springs in 1872; Frank Rees George — explorer and geologist and Johannes Frederick Mueller — the first Station-Master at the Telegraph Station.
The last burial in the Stuart Town Cemetery was in 1932 when the Memorial (General) Cemetery opened.
Chapel
Opened in May 2017, the Garden Cemetery Chapel was constructed to provide a culturally neutral facility in which memorial services of all cultures and traditions could take place.
The Chapel’s rear walls slide out and open onto an outdoor area, allowing it to accomodate small and intimate funeral services, as well as larger scale funerals.
An adjoining garden provides a place for quiet reflection, with artworks intended to evoke the universal experience of grieving and loss. The chapel is thoughtfully decorated with paintings of local flora and birdlife.