Papunya
Papunya is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly 240 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs 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.
- Village with about 440 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 610 metres (2,010 feet)
- Description: town in the Northern Territory, Australia
- Also known as“Papunya, Northern Territory”“Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia”“Warumpi”“Warumpi, Northern Territory”
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Latitude
-23.20496° or 23° 12′ 18″ south
Longitude
131.91225° or 131° 54′ 44″ east
Open location code
5Q8HQWW6+2V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Papunya” goes by many names.
PapunyaAsturian
PapunyaBasque
PapunyaCatalan
PapunyaCebuano
ПапуняChechen
帕普尼亚Chinese
帕普尼亞Chinese
帕潘亚Chinese
PapunyaDutch
PapunyaGalician
പാപുണ്യMalayalam
PapunyaOccitan (post 1500)
پاپونیاPersian
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