Where is Tjuntjuntjara located?
Q: Where is Tjuntjuntjara located?
A: Tjuntjuntjara is a remote Aboriginal community in the southeast of Western Australia. It is located in the Great Victoria Desert, inside the Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve. It is about 700 kilometres (430 mi) east of Kalgoorlie.
Q: What language do people living at Tjuntjuntjara speak?
A: People living at Tjuntjuntjara speak a southern variety of the Pitjantjatjar language.
Q: How did people come to live at Tjuintjuintjarra?
A: Most of the people now living at Tjuintjuintjarra were previously living at Cundeelee, then a Christian mission, further to the west. In the late 1980s, Cundeelee was being closed so a group of elders led members back east to their homelands to set up a new community.
Q: What services and facilities are available for residents?
A: The community has its own health clinic and school which are helped by the federal government. Mail is flown in by plane once per week and there is also truck delivery of food supplies every two weeks. There is also an art project called Spinifex Arts Project which was set up in 1997 for members of the community to create artworks.
Q: How many people live in Tjuintjuintjarra?
A: In 2011 census there were 162 people living in 17 houses in Tjuintjuintjarra.
Q: Is there a police station in this area?
A: No, there is no police station located within this area or nearby communities.
