Ernabella, South Australia
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Ernabella or Pukatja () is a remote settlement in the north west of South Australia. It is in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara lands. It is in the eastern Musgrave Ranges, west of the Stuart Highway, about 30 km south of the Northern Territory border. Ernabella is about 1400 km by road from Adelaide, including 200 km on unsealed roads.
Ernabella has been an Aboriginal community for a long time. It was established as a Presbyterian mission in 1938. Ernabella Arts Inc also started in the same year and is the longest continually running aboriginal arts centre in Australia. It has a school teaching Reception through to senior high school. The community store sells grocery supplies, clothes and hot food, and has EFTPOS facilities. The garage has basic parts and diesel fuel. The clinic has three registered nurses and the doctor is based here, but often absent visiting other communities.
The population of Ernabella is somewhere between 500 and 700 people.
Even in this remote area, houses have telephones, access to multiple television channels including (Imparja and ABC), and mail is delivered twice weekly by air from Alice Springs.
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