Kaltukatjara

Kaltukatjara (English Docker River ) is a village in the southwest of the Australian state of Northern Territory, which was founded in 1968. It is located 670 km southwest of Alice Springs near the border with South Australia and Western Australia. The village is located in a wadi called Docker Creek. The 2011 census showed 295 residents.

History

The settlement of the Aborigines of Kaltukatjara was named by Ernest Giles during his expedition of 1872 Docker River. The pastors Duguid and the German Carl Strehlow searched the area in the 1930s to establish a mission for the establishment of the tribe of Aborigines from Anangu, Pitjantjatjara and Ngaatjatjarra speak. Later, in the 1930s and 1940s, the indigenous people of the area an Aboriginal mission stations were deported to the Lutheran mission station to Hermannsburg. In the 1960s, there were aspirations of Aboriginal people to return to their country of origin, which, with support from the government in the years 1967-1968. With the receipt of the Aboriginal Lands Rights (NT ) Act, the Anangu received their original land back in a volume of 44 970 m².

2009 overran 6000 dromedaries multiply the village in search of water. It was carried out at a cost of just under AUD 50,000 a Notkeulung of 3604 camels.

Facilities

In the resort there are water tanks and a sewage system. An electricity connection is ensured by three diesel generators. The streets within the town are sealed, the so-called Petermann Road, the main connection to the village, but not. There are shops, a school, a Lutheran church, public telephones, as well as sports fields for Australian football and basketball.

Climate

The nearest weather station is located in Giles, about 80 kilometers to the west. All of the following information relating to this place.

The average maximum temperatures in summer (January) amount to 37.3 ° C in winter (July) 20.0 ° C. The nightly average minimum temperature in January is 23.6 ° C and in July 6.8 ° C. The annual rainfall is 286.4 mm. The highest temperature ever recorded was 45.7 ° C ( 16 January 2013), the lowest 9.0 ° C ( 1 August 1975).