Nyapaṟi is an Aboriginal community in the

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. It is located about south of the

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border at the base of the

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. The nearby community of

Kanpi Kaṉpi is an Aboriginal community in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia. It is located about south of the Northern Territory border at the base of the Mann Ranges. The nearby town of Nyapari is to the east. ...

is to the west. There are about 50-100 people living there, including a small number of piranpa (non-Aboriginal) people. The residents are mostly

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people. Nyapaṟi began as a family outstation by the Stevens family, who moved here to look after the country of their

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s. Today it is a fully established community of extended families. It serves as an administration centre for nearby outstations Ulkiya and Tankannu. Because both Nyapaṟi and nearby Kaṉpi are small communities, there are only basic services and most of them are shared between the two towns. In Nyapaṟi, there is an art centre and a health

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. Supplies are delivered once every two weeks, and mail is delivered once per week. The community store is in Kaṉpi. Both Kaṉpi and Nyapaṟi had their own schools from 1987, but these merged in 1993. The new school, Murputja Education Centre, was built between the two communities, east of Nyapaṟi and west of Kaṉpi. The Tjungu Palya art centre at Nyapari supports the development of a number of artists, some of whom have had work exhibited in Darwin,

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and

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, as well as in

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at the

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in 2017. The centre is one of ten Indigenous-owned and -governed enterprises that go to make up the

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, established in 2013.

Time zone

Due to its links with the

and proximity to the border, the

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do not observe daylight savings unlike the rest of South Australia. The time zone observed throughout the year is Australian Central Standard Time ( UTC+9:30), in line with Darwin rather than

References

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