Docker River (Kaltukatjara) - NT

  Aboriginal Community

Position

DEG: -24.87428 129.08282
DMS: 24º 52' 27.41" S 129º 04' 58.17" E
UTM: 52 J 7248970mN 508366mE
Altitude: 594.17m

Description

Place Type

Population - Aboriginal Community

Location

179.83kms South of Kintore - Driving 1070 km (1 day 3 hours)
195.87kms West of Yulara - Driving 230 km (3 hours 15 mins)
288kms NorthEast of Warburton - Driving 328 km (4 hours 38 mins)
920.37kms NorthWest of Ceduna - Driving 1963 km (22 hours 8 mins)

Address & Contact

Petermann Rd
Kaltukatjara NT 0872
Phone: +618 8956 7373
Email: dockerriver@macdonnell.nt.gov.au
Web: https://www.macdonnell.nt.gov.au/communities/docker-river

Information

Docker River Community is strictly no entry to visitors without a community access permit. Tourists with a travel permit not permitted.

Community History:
Docker River community, also called Kaltukatjara, is situated in the Petermann Ranges in the far south-western corner of the Northern Territory, about 7 km east of the Western Australian border. The main Aboriginal languages spoken are Pitjantjatjara and Ngaanyatjara, and the community has a population of about 350. It is a remote location, 670 km southwest of Alice Springs, accessed by road through Uluru, while Kintore is 180 kms to the north.

The current community at Docker River was set up in 1968 to relieve pressure on Warburton community to the west, where social disruption had been a problem. It also allowed Aboriginal people of the area to live closer to their ancestral lands. The site had originally been named Docker River by Ernest Giles during his expedition of 1872.

During the 1930s the area had been surveyed by Lutheran pastors with the view to setting up a mission settlement. That project did not go ahead and during this time missionaries encouraged local Anangu people to move north-east to Areyonga which was an outstation of Hermannsburg Mission. These were years of severe drought in the desert, and hundreds of people moved to Areyonga where food rations and clothing were available.

By the 1960s Anangu people at Areyonga wanted to return to their lands in the Docker River area, and the government funded the building of permanent buildings in 1968. More than 300 people from Areyonga, along with others from Warburton, moved to the newly built community. In 1976 the Anangu people of the area were granted freehold title to their traditional lands, an area of nearly 45,000 square kilometres.
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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Giles* at 22/01:37am WST
Distance from Docker River (Kaltukatjara) 80.74km W
TemperatureFeels LikeRel. HumidityDew PointPressureRainfallWind DirectionWind SpeedGusts
23.5°C18.1°C67%17.0°C1009.3hPa0.0mmWSW41km/hr
22knots
59km/hr
32knots

Closest Climatic Station

Giles Meteorological Office
Distance from Docker River (Kaltukatjara) 80.74km W
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean Max. °C37.336.033.729.423.720.320.022.627.431.634.335.7
Mean Min. °C23.622.920.516.511.38.06.88.712.917.119.921.9
Mean Rain mm30.145.636.815.519.817.711.710.211.115.727.545.1

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