Aputula (25°35′S 134°34′E) is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is south of Alice Springs, 159 km east of the Stuart Highway, near the South Australia and Northern Territory border. Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ... Capital Darwin Government Const. ... Alice Springs CBD, NT Alice Springs is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia located at . ... The Stuart Highway (National A87 in SA and National 87 in NT) is one of Australias major roadways. ... Emblems: Hairy Nosed Wombat (faunal); Leafy Seadragon (marine); Piping Shrike (bird: unofficial); Sturts Desert Pea (floral); Opal (gemstone) Motto: United for the Common Wealth Slogan or Nickname: Festival State Other Australian states and territories Capital Adelaide Government Const. ... Capital Darwin Government Const. ...

The community is also known as Finke, which is the European name for the township where the community is now situated and also for the Finke River which the community sits beside. The Fikree family is said to be the first family to settle this area and named it Finke after their settling father Finke Fikree. The Finke River is the main river in Central Australia. ...

The name Aputula comes from the water site near the community called 'Putula', which used to be the site of a water soakage. A soakage, or soak, is a source of water in Australian deserts. ...

Putula is an Arrernte word. Old Arrernte people used to get their water from there a long time ago, before the white people and the railway line came to the area. The name of today's community, Aputula, comes from that word. Anangu put the 'a' on the front to make it easier for the white people who couldn't say it the proper way. Arrente is both a language, a group of people, and an area of land in Central Australia. ... Anangu is a word that means people in a number of Australian Aboriginal languages, including, but not limited to: Arrente Western Arrente Eastern Arrente Central Arrente Pitjantjatjara Ngaanyatjarra Yankunytjatjara Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjara refer to themselves as Anangu, which originally just meant people in general, but has now come to...

There are 250 people who live in the community. They are Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, Luritja and Lower Southern Arrernte people. Pitjantjatjara is the name of both an Aboriginal people (or Anangu) of the Central Australian desert and their language. ... Yankunytjatjara (also Yankuntatjara, Jangkundjara, Kulpantja) is an Australian Aboriginal language. ... Luritja is both an Australian Aboriginal country, a group of people and a language. ... Arrente is both a language, a group of people, and an area of land in Central Australia. ...