ALICE SPRINGS, Australia — For 60 years, Australians have gathered in the Outback town of Alice Springs to cheer on one of the oddest events on the planet: a dry river race called the Henley-on-Todd Regatta.
The name is a not-so-regal knockoff of an annual royal river boat race hosted by the British town of Henley-on-Thames. The Australians’ competition takes place in the waterless Todd River.
“They only have sculling,” Peter Mostran, the dry regatta’s “commodore,” said of the more staid British version. “We have everything.”
Michael E. Miller
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