Punmu

Punmu
State :  Australia State : Western Australia
Coordinates : 22 ° 3 ′  S , 123 ° 7 ′  E Coordinates: 22 ° 3 ′  S , 123 ° 7 ′  E
Residents : 142 (2016)
Time zone : AWST (UTC + 8) LGA : East Pilbara Shire
Punmu

Punmu is an Aboriginal Martu settlement in Western Australia in the middle of the Great Sand Desert , about 600 kilometers southeast of Port Hedland . 142 people lived here in 2016.

The Aboriginal settlement, which can be reached in 8.5 hours from Port Hedland on a dirt road under good weather conditions , was built in 1981 on Lake Dora in the Rudall River National Park .

The Martu have held one of the largest native titles in Australia since 2002 , which extends over an area of ​​136,000 kilometers, which also includes the Telfer gold mine .

Right from the start, it was important to the Martu to set up a school in their settlement, the RAWA School . The settlement consists of several residential buildings and a school building, a shop and a workshop. There is a ban on alcohol in the village.

In summer, temperatures reach around 50 ° C and in winter around 0 ° C.

Web links

• rawaschool.com.au : RAWA Community School. Life in Punmu. in English, accessed July 19, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Punmu (Indigenous Location) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
2. ^ Doug and Rebecca Bird: Learning the Hard Way. In: Stanford magazine. 2010, accessed July 18, 2012.
3. ↑ aics.wa.edu.au ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Rawa Community School - Punmu. in English, accessed July 19, 2012.