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Aerial view of Kata Tjuṯa / Mount Olga. Kata Tjuṯa (Pitjantjatjara: Kata Tjuṯa, lit. 'many heads'; Aboriginal pronunciation: [kɐtɐ cʊʈɐ]), also known as The Olgas and officially gazetted as Kata Tjuta / Mount Olga, [3] is a group of large, domed rock formations or bornhardts located about 360 km (220 mi) southwest of Alice Springs, in the southern part of the Northern Territory ...
The name Pitjantjatjara derives from the word pitjantja, a nominalised form of the verb "go" (equivalent to the English "going" used as a noun). Combined with the comitative suffix -tjara, it means something like "pitjantja-having" (i.e. the variety that uses the word pitjantja for "going").
The town of Yulara is excluded from the Land Trusts, and sits between the Katiti block and Uluṟu–Kata Tjuṯa National Park. The trust is named after Katiti (Bobbie's Well), a natural spring located about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south of Lake Amadeus. [2] This spring was first written about by Baldwin Spencer and Francis James Gillen.
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.
However, after the establishment of the Tribal Research Institute, it was discovered that six communities viz. Chenchu, Ghara, Kandha Gauda, Kuli, Saunti had been mistakenly included in the list due to a lack of accurate local information when the list was originally drawn up in 1950 and revised in 1956.
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 ...
District wise Scheduled Tribes demographic map of West Bengal More than half of the total ST population of the state is concentrated in Medinipur , Jalpaiguri , Purulia , and Bardhaman districts. Of the remaining districts, Bankura , Malda , Uttar Dinajpur , and Dakshin Dinajpur have sizable ST population.
The sides of Mount Conner are blanketed by scree (talus) and its top is blanketed by colluvium.The base of Mount Conner is surrounded by alluvium. [7] [8] [9]The summit of Mount Conner, along with the summits of low domes in the Kata Tjuta complex and summit levels of Uluru, is an erosional remnant of a Cretaceous geomorphic surface.