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.
- Type: Village with 438 residents
- Description: town in the Northern Territory, Australia
- Also known as: “Papunya, Northern Territory”, “Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia”, “Warumpi”, “Warumpi, Northern Territory”, “Папунья”, and “帕潘亚”
Papunya
- Categories: town, Indigenous Australian community, and locality
- Location: MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-23.20496° or 23° 12′ 18″ south
Longitude
131.91225° or 131° 54′ 44″ east
Population
438
Elevation
612 metres (2,008 feet)
Open location code
5Q8HQWW6+2V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Papunya” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Papunya”
- Basque: “Papunya”
- Catalan: “Papunya”
- Cebuano: “Papunya”
- Chinese: “帕普尼亚”
- Chinese: “帕普尼亞”
- Dutch: “Papunya”
- French: “Papunya”
- Galician: “Papunya”
- German: “Papunya”
- Malayalam: “പാപുണ്യ”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Papunya”
- Persian: “پاپونیا”
- Polish: “Papunya”
- Russian: “Папуня”
- Spanish: “Papunya”
- Swedish: “Papunya”
- Turkish: “Papunya”
- Welsh: “Papunya”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 5 Mile Bore and Ulambara.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Papunya Police Station and Theo Brown Oval.
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