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CKE
Puta Puta

Alyapa

 Pirrulpakalarintja

Mutitjulu

  Uluru-Kata Tjuta

    Curtin Springs

     Angas Downs
        Imanpa

    Mount Ebenezer Eridunda

               Umutju Mantarur

           Walytjatjata

  National Park

Alpara

   Mulga Park

           Mount Cavenagh
                                          NORTHERN TERRITORY

            Kalka Pipalyatjara

Kanypi

  Angatja

Nyapari

Amata

 Walyinynga (Cave Hill)

   SOUTH AUSTRALIA
 Ngarutjara

    Victory Downs

Kunamata

Ulkiya

Umuwa

 Pukatja
 (Ernabella)

 Yunyarinyi (Kenmore Park)

 De Rose Hill

                                            Kaltjiti (Fregon)

                    Wartura (Mt Lindsay)

Walalkara

Kanu Ultu

  Rob Well

 Mimili

  Iwantja (Indulkana)

  Granite Downs
   Parks Australia supports Aṉangu to maintain their cultural heritage and knowledge by facilitating and supporting 'on-country' cultural activities, protecting sacred sites and ensuring that sensitive sites are accessible to Aṉangu, whilst being protected from unauthorised or inappropriate visitor use or access (see Section 3.2 Protecting and enriching culture and country). A Cultural and Natural Heritage working group advises the Board on a range of cultural and natural heritage matters. It comprises Aṉangu, scientists, the Central Land Council, cultural heritage specialists and park staff.

   In the past, research on Aṉangu society has included the collection of objects and recording of cultural practices, ceremonies and knowledge. In some cases, cultural property was removed from Aṉangu control and deposited in museums, libraries or educational institutions, either in Australia or overseas. Increasingly, the existence of this cultural material is coming to light and its repatriation is important to Aṉangu. For
   this reason, a secure 'keeping place' was constructed for the community to house sacred and repatriated material. In addition to the keeping place, databases are used to appropriately store and access cultural materials (digital images and sound recordings). Parks Australia also contributes to a cultural heritage database used in the region, called Aṟa Irititja.

   The Director has responsibilities to assist Aṉangu protect culturally significant material and important cultural areas within the park. The Land Rights Act, the EPBC Act and EPBC Regulations and the park lease agreement all provide legal protection of sacred sites and other sites of significance to Aṉangu, with any ground disturbing works and works in which living or dead trees will be damaged or modified will require a CLC sacred site clearance certificate. The Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act 1989 (NT) and the Heritage Act 2011 (NT) are also relevant to the protection of sacred sites and certain objects.

The physical landscape

   The major features of the physical landscape within the park are the iconic rock formations of Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa, whose exceptional natural beauty and ongoing geological processes are recognised in the park's World Heritage inscription. Aṉangu explanations of the formation of Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa derive from Tjukurpa (see Tjukurpa and a living cultural landscape in Part A). According to Western science, they were formed when earth movements caused the folding and upthrust of rock, which were later