Aputula
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Aputula, alternatively spelt Apatula (formerly Finke until the 1980s), is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is south of Alice Springs and east of Kulgera roadhouse on the Stuart Highway, near the border with South Australia. The Finke River (named after German explorer and pastoralist William Finke), runs within a few kilometres of the community. The river, which is part of the Lake Eyre basin, is dry for most of the year, but is subject to occasional floods.
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Aputula, alternatively spelt Apatula (formerly Finke until the 1980s), is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is south of Alice Springs and east of Kulgera roadhouse on the Stuart Highway, near the border with South Australia. The Finke River (named after German explorer and pastoralist William Finke), runs within a few kilometres of the community. The river, which is part of the Lake Eyre basin, is dry for most of the year, but is subject to occasional floods.
==Location and geography== Aputula is the farthest populated place from the sea in mainland Australia, and therefore the nearest settlement to the geographical centre: the Lambert centre point of mainland Australia is west-southwest of the township.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aputula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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