Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is named after
two of Australia's most impressive sites: the world-famous Ulol monolith
sandstone and the red houses of Kata Tjuta.
Our two-world national park is located in the
heart of the Central Australian outback, about 250 miles [450 km] from Alice
Springs.
The land is owned by the Anangu people and is
leased to Parks Australia, which owns the national park in partnership with the
traditional owners. Ayers Rock Resort near Yulara offers accommodations,
restaurants, shops, petrol and other essential tourist parking
facilities.Despite its famous landforms and unusual Indigenous cultures, the
park is home to an abundance of flora and fauna, including many rare species.
At 1,334 square kilometers in size, Uluru-Kata
Tjuta National Park is small compared to many other parks - slightly smaller
than the Litchfield NP and less than a tenth of Kakadu's size. But since the
establishment of tourism infrastructure near the center of Uluru in the 1950s,
Uluru and Kata Tjuta have been a tourist card, with more than 250,000 visitors
annually (in addition to Kakadu, which receives about 180,000 visitors). The
development of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park has long shown a balance between
managing these areas as a tourist destination and accepting indigenous claims
in the area.
According to archaeological evidence, Aboriginal people lived in Central Australia for more than 30,000 years. The people of Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara are the traditional owners of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park; in their language they call themselves Anangu (called arn-ung-oo). More than a century after the first European explorers saw Uluru and Kata Tjuta, the Anangu people were officially recognized by the Australian government as traditional landowners.
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