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Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park a Commonwealth Reserve* Uluru–Kata Tjuta Park Use Fee Adults $25.00 National Park Is Children Under 16 Free Contents Aboriginal Land VISI TOR GUIDE Welcome to Aboriginal land Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park A Commonwealth Reserve* Uluru–Kata Tjuta PARK USE FEE Adults $25.00 National Park is Children under 16 free Contents Aboriginal land. Non-transferrable tickets The park is jointly valid for 3 consecutive days managed by its Anangu traditional owners and the Director of National PARK OPENING HOURS Pukulpa pitjama Ananguku ngurakutu Welcome to Aboriginal land 4 Parks and is a World Dec/Jan/Feb 5am–9pm March 5:30am – 8:30pm Heritage area recognised April 6am–8pm May 6am – 7:30pm for both natural and Tjunguringkula waakaripai Working together 6 cultural values. June/July 6:30am–7:30pm August 6am – 7:30pm September 5:30am–7:30pm October 5am – 8pm Park-aku nintiringanyi Learning about the Park 8 FRONT COVER: Jennifer Taylor November 5am–8:30pm (see page 7 for a detailed Tjukurpa Tjukurpa 10 explanation of this painting) Photo: Steve Strike CULTURAL CENTRE OPENING HOURS 7am – 6pm daily Cultural Centre-kutu warara (entry closes at 5:30pm) pitjama Visit the Cultural Centre 12 Information Desk Opening Hours 8am – 5pm daily ISBN 064253 7874 September 2009 Wanyu Ulurunya tatintja Unless otherwise indicated copyright in INFORMATION Phone: (08) 8956 1128 wiyangku wantima PLEASE DON’T CLIMB ULURU 14 this guide is vested in the Director of National Parks. Fax: (08) 8956 2360 Designed by In Graphic Detail Uluru 16 Printed by Colemans Printing, Darwin Email: uluru.info@environment. using Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) Paper gov.au from Sustainable Forests. Kata Tjuta 20 Website: www.environment.gov.au/ parks/uluru Talinguru Nyakunytjaku 24 POLICE AND PARAMEDICS Emergencies only – phone 000 Sunset and Sunrise 26 Ngura kulintjaku Understanding the country 28 Connellan Airport About the geology 32 Ngura atunymankunytjaku Looking after the land 34 sealed road unsealed road Valley of the Winds carpark national park boundary Lasseter Highway Ngura atunymankunytjaku Looking after the land – World Heritage 36 Erldunda 214 km Yulara/Resort area Yulara/Resort Alice Springs 443 km Tjukurpa kutjupaku nintiringama Learn some new words 38 Park entry station sunset viewing area Kata TjutaTjuta Ara kutjupa kutjupa kulintjaku General information 40 to Kaltukatjara and WA border buses cars (Docker River) UluruUluru Ngura pulkanya atunmananyi Looking after this special place 42 Allow 110 km return to Kata TjutaTjuta from Cultural Centre or Yulara 0 5 10 km TalinguruTalinguru Nyakunytjaku Kata TjutaTjuta Tjukurpa atunmanamangku SAFETY INFORMATION: WalpaWalpa Gorge dune viewing area sunset viewing carpark (sunrise and sunset) areas – ngurakutu wanka ankuntjaku Cultural Centre DON’T RISK YOUR LIFE 44 © Director of National Parks, Australian Government Designed by In Graphic Detail 2 3 Pukulpa pitjama Ananguku ngurakutu Welcome to Aboriginal land Pukul ngalya yanama We, the traditional landowners of Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park, are Ananguku ngurakutu. Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara people. We speak our own language —Yankunytjatjara welcome and teach it to our children. In our language we call ourselves Anangu (pronounced arn-ang-oo) and we would like you to use that word too. Pukulpa pitjama Ananguku ngurakutu. The land that is now Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park was created by the —Pitjantjatjara welcome creation ancestors. In their travels they left marks in the land and made laws for us to keep and live by. We hope that, during your visit, you will learn about some of our creation ancestors and some of our law and culture. This is Aboriginal land and you Please respect this knowledge and open your minds and hearts so you can are welcome. Look around and really appreciate our enduring culture. learn in order to understand Uluru, Kata Tjuta and the land around them have always been very special Aboriginal people and also places. Now this is recognised by their listing as a World Heritage area for understand that Aboriginal both their cultural and natural values. We think you will be inspired by the culture is strong and alive. natural beauty and power of our land. We hope you enjoy it and return —© Traditional owner safely to your homes and families to share the knowledge you have gained. Together with the Uluru–Kata Tjuta Board of Management and the Park’s staff, we welcome you to Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park. In 1985, after many years of O ppostie: Kuniya dance for a welcome ceremony, February 2009 Photo: DEWHA hard work and negotiations, the title deed to Uluru– Kata Tjuta land trust was handed back to us (Anangu) Handback ceremony, 26 October 1985 Photo: UKTNP 1985 by the then Governor General of Australia Sir Ninian Stephen. In turn we leased the land back to the Federal Government for 99 years. Since 1985 we have been managing Uluru– Kata Tjuta National Park, together with the Director of National Parks. This process of working together has come to be known as ‘joint management’. 4 5 Tjunguringkula waakaripai Working together Board of Management The Uluru–Kata Tjuta Board of Management (the Board) under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999, has a responsibility to: • prepare the Plan of Management for the Park; • monitor the management of the Park; and • make management decisions consistent with the Plan of Management. The majority of Board members must be Indigenous persons nominated by the traditional Aboriginal owners of the Park. The Board is comprised of twelve members as follows: • four male and four female traditional owner representatives; • the Director of National Parks; and • one representative from the Northern Territory Government; the Federal Minister for Tourism and the Federal Minister for the Environment. The Manager is responsible for implementing the Management Plan, Board decisions and the day to day management of the Park. The Manager reports to the Board and the Director of National Parks. Board of Management Deputy Chair Malya Teamay (left) and Chair Harry Wilson Photo: DEWHA The “Working Together” painting T he Working together painting © Jennifer Taylor Photo: Steve Strike The central circle represents Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park. The twelve seated figures are the members of the Board of Management: four pairs of male and female Anangu (in brown colour) and four non-Anangu (in white colour). They have surrounded the Park with a yuu, a traditional windbreak. This is the protection that their decisions and policies provide both for the culture and the environment of the Park, as well as for Park visitors. Waiting and listening to the Board’s decisions are the Anangu and non-Anangu rangers. The Anangu rangers are barefoot, representing their close connection with the land and knowledge derived from thousands of years of looking after the land. The non-Anangu rangers wear shoes, representing their land management training and knowledge derived from European scientific traditions. Surrounding all are two more yuu (windbreaks) representing the protection and support of Tjukurpa (Anangu traditional law) and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999), which are working together to guide the management and protection of Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park. Undulating sand dunes and rich bushland encircle the Park. 6 7 to Yulara/Resort/ Bus Sunset Kata Tjuta Car Sunset DUNE WALK Accessible all day until 1 hour before sunset, when it is reserved for bus groups B A S E W L K Tjukatjapi A Warayuki to Yulara/Resort/ Bus Sunset Kata Tjuta M A L A W A L K Taputji Mala carpark Kantju Gorge Mala Puta Car Sunset DUNE WALK Accessible all day NO until 1 hour before sunset, when it is ENTRY L B reserved for bus groups A S I E W A L K Tjukatjapi R Kuniya Piti Warayuki L U Park-aku nintiringanyi M A L A W A L K U Taputji Mala carpark Kantju Gorge N Learning about the Park W Sensitive sites Mala Puta G Mutitjulu Waterhole K A A L T NO Ananguku ngura nyangatja, Anangu Tjukurpa tjutatjara. Around the base of Uluru are important sensitive areas. Some of these are K A ENTRY L This is an Aboriginal place with much Aboriginal law. sensitive under traditional men’s law, and othersI under traditional women’s W Pulari R Kuniya Piti law. Viewing or entering these areas is forbidden unlessL properly authorised U U A KUNIYA WALK by senior men or women. Details of the stories and access to these areas Nganana panya Tjukurpa nyanga palula tjana-languru kulini. N L are restricted to certain authorised senior menW and women.G This has been Mutitjulu Waterhole K We hear this law from others who know. K A NO PHOTOGRAPHY our custom for tens of thousands of years. Visitors are encouragedA to learn L T K A Kamilu, tjamulu tjana panya tjukurpa kunpu, about this place, but please respect our culture by walking only on the NO FILMING marked track. W Pulari Our grandmothers and grandfathers A KUNIYA WALK Kuniya carpark L NO ENTRY These sites are cared for by the right people according to Anangu law. It is K kanyiningi ara kunpu kanyiningi very important that you do not enter or take photographs of these sensitive Park headquarters held the law strongly, and held our culture strongly, sites. Kuniya carpark to Yulara/Resort/ Please respect our places and do not enter them. TrespassersPark can headquarters be munuya Anangu tjuta kunpu nyinangi. Bus Sunset Kata Tjuta and they lived strongly and happily. prosecuted under NT and Commonwealth laws. Cultural Centre Cultural Centre Ka kuwari nyanga nganana tjungu nyinanyi piranpa tjuta munu maru tjuta. @ Sensitive site Car Sunset @ Sensitive site Now we are living together, white people and Talinguru Nyakunytjaku black people. DUNE open late 2009 WALK Talinguru Nyakunytjaku Nganana tjungu waakaripai, piranpa munu maru palu Accessible all day open late 2009 until 1 hour before sunset, when it is purunypa.
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