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Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia Pty Limited, commonly called Voyages, is a subsidiary business of the Indigenous Land Corporation. [4] Voyages manages tourism and resort facilities in the Northern Territory, in Western Australia and in Queensland, Australia.
Uluru rock formations Panorama from the top of Uluru, showing a typical gully Close-up view of Uluru's surface, composed of arkose Uluru is an inselberg . [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] An inselberg is a prominent isolated residual knob or hill that rises abruptly from and is surrounded by extensive and relatively flat erosion lowlands in a hot, dry ...
Tony Tjamiwa was a senior traditional owner of Uluru and Kata Tjuta and was intimately involved in the long battle for the return of them to his people. [1] [2] He was a board member of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. [3] His wife was the renowned artist and carver, Pulya Taylor. It is one Tjukurpa inside the Park and outside the Park-not ...
[2] [4] He also negotiated the successful native title claim of the traditional owners of Uluru in 1983. [ 4 ] He was the head of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1986 to 1992.
Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia.The park is home to both Uluru and Kata Tjuta.It is located 1,943 kilometres (1,207 mi) south of Darwin by road and 440 kilometres (270 mi) south-west of Alice Springs along the Stuart and Lasseter Highways.
The Anangu consider themselves caretakers rather than owners of Uluṟu. For many years, Uluṟu was controlled by non-Aboriginal Australians, with motels placed close by. Traditional owners who had been forced out of the national park returned and settled at Mutitjulu, and worked towards restoring their land rights.
The trust's owners include Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Luritja people. The block of land is officially referred to as Northern Territory Portion 1818 . It borders the larger Petermann Land Trust area and Uluṟu–Kata Tjuṯa National Park to the north and west, and two pastoral stations to the east and south: Curtin Springs and Mulga ...
Pitjantjatjara people live in the area around Uluru / Ayers Rock and south to the Great Australian Bight. The sacred sites of Uluru / Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuṯa / Mount Olga possess important spiritual and ceremonial significance for the Anangu with more than 40 named sacred sites and 11 separate Tjukurpa (or "Dreaming") tracks in the area ...