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About William Mills

William Whitfield Mills was an English surveyor of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line who is best known for naming a waterhole in Central Australia Alice Spring, from which the town of Alice Springs now takes its name. He also named Heavitree Gap as a tribute to his old school in Devon, England.

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Born: November 19, 1844
Died: September 18, 1916

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