Papunya
- Local Government Area
- MacDonnell
- Postcode
- 0872
- Population
- 438
- Area
- 4.74 km²
- Coordinates
- -23.2048, 131.9131
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Papunya
Papunya (Pintupi-Luritja: Warumpi) is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly 240 kilometres (150 mi) northwest of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is known as an important centre for Contemporary Indigenous Australian art, in particular the style created by the Papunya Tula artists in the 1970s, referred to colloquially as dot painting. Its population in 2016 was 404.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Haasts Bluff 28 km
- Kunparrka 34 km
- Mount Zeil 51 km
- Mount Liebig 66 km
- Mereenie 77 km