Exploring Australia, town by town
Ti Tree Postcode: 0872 Ti Tree is a small town in the Northern Territory along the Stuart Highway 193 km north of Alice Springs, 311 km south of Tennant Creek and 1289 km south of Darwin in Australia. It is the closest town to Alice Springs. The area around Ti Tree has a population of […]
Rabbit Flat Postcode: 0872 Rabbit Flat (20°11’S, 130°01’E) is a location in the Northern Territory. The Rabbit Flat Roadhouse is claimed to be the most isolated roadhouse in Australia. It is located on the Tanami Track which runs from Alice Springs in the south to Halls Creek in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The […]
Papunya Postcode: 0872 Papunya is a small Indigenous Australian community of about 350 people roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is now home to a number of displaced Aboriginal people mainly from the Pintubi and Luritja tribes. Papunya is on restricted Aboriginal land and requires a permit to […]
Mutitjulu Postcode: 0872 Mutitjulu in Australia’s Northern Territory is an Indigenous Australian community adjacent Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) in a world renowned tourist area, the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Its people are joint managers of the park with Parks Australia. The majority of the people are Pitjantjatjara but there are also associated Yankunytjatjara […]
Kulgera Postcode: 0872 Kulgera ( 25°50’S, 133°18’E) is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia. Kulgera is accessible by train. The Ghan, run by Great Southern Railway between Adelaide and Darwin arrives twice weekly in each direction. Australian folk band Redgum wrote a song called “Lear Jets Over Kulgera”.
Kintore Postcode: 0872 Kintore is a remote settlement in the Northern Territory of Australia, located approximately 530km west of Alice Springs and close to the border with WA. At the 2001 census, Kintore had a population of 691, of which 95% identified themselves as Aboriginal. It was founded in 1981, when many Pintupi people who […]
Jay Creek Postcode: 0872 Jay Creek is in the MacDonnell Ranges 45 kilometres west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. It was a government settlement for Indigenous Australians which for a time in the late 1920s and early ’30s included 45 children from a home named ‘The Bungalow’ (37 of whom were under the […]
Imanpa Postcode: 0872 Imanpa Community ( 25°07’S, 132°35’E) is in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is 7 km north of the Lasseter Highway, the main road running between the Stuart Highway and Uluru (Ayers Rock). Imanpa lies 160 km east of Uluru and 200 km south west of Alice Springs as the crow flies. […]
Hermannsburg Postcode: 0872 Hermannsburg is an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia, 131 km southwest of Alice Springs. At the 2001 census, Hermannsburg had a population of 458. It was established as an Aboriginal mission in 1877 by two Lutheran missionaries from Germany who had travelled overland from Bethany in the Barossa Valley […]
Erldunda Postcode: 0872 Erldunda is located ideally for people not wanting to stay near Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas). Although located 253 km from Uluru the amount of money saved, particularly if it is only intended to spend a day in the Uluru National Park, would justify the distance. The general area […]
