__NOTOC__ Petermann is a locality in the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

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located about south of the territory capital of Darwin in the territory’s south-western corner adjoining the states of

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and

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. The locality consists of the following land (from west to east) – the Petermann Aboriginal Land Trust, the

Katiti Aboriginal Land Trust The Katiti Aboriginal Land Trust (Katiti ALT) is a land trust for a block of land in the southwest of the Northern Territory of Australia located in the locality of Petermann. It was created through the Katiti Land Claim in 1980. The trust's owne ...

and the NT Portion 1798 (better known as the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park), the Land Settlement Aboriginal Corporation and NT Portion 6665 (better known as the

Watarrka National Park Watarrka National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 1,316 kilometres (817 miles) south of the territory capital of Darwin and southwest of Alice Springs. It contains the much visited Kings Canyon a ...

), the Urrampinyi Iltjiltjarri Aboriginal Land Trust and the pastoral leases of

Curtin Springs Curtin Springs is a pastoral lease operating as a cattle station in the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory of Australia. Occupying an area of , the working cattle station and roadhouse facility is located on the Lasseter Highwa ...

Angas Downs Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is an Aboriginal Australian-owned pastoral lease, within the MacDonnell Shire area, south-west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, east from Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park (Ayers Rock), south ...

and Mulga Park. The locality fully surrounds the communities of

Kaltukatjara Kaltukatjara , also known as Docker River, is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is southwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Alice Springs, west of the Stuart Highway, near the Western Aust ...

and Mutitjulu, and the locality of

Yulara Yulara is a town in the southern region of the Northern Territory, Australia. It lies as an unincorporated enclave within MacDonnell Region. At the , Yulara had a permanent population of 1,099, in an area of . It is by road from World Heritage ...

. Petermann is named after the Petermann Ranges, a mountain range partly located within the locality’s boundaries, and which was named after the German cartographer,

August Heinrich Petermann Augustus Heinrich Petermann (18 April 182225 September 1878) was a German cartographer. Early years Petermann was born in Bleicherode, Germany. When he was 14 years old he started grammar school in the nearby town of Nordhausen. His mother wa ...

by the explorer,

Ernest Giles William Ernest Powell Giles (20 July 1835 – 13 November 1897), best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer who led five major expeditions to parts of South Australia and Western Australia. Early life Ernest Giles was born in Bris ...

, in 1874. The locality’s boundary and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. The

2016 Australian census The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an incre ...

which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Petermann had 185 people living within its boundaries. Petermann is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the

MacDonnell Region The MacDonnell Regional Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. The region covers an area of and had an estimated population of 6,863 people in June 2018. Geography MacDonnell Regional Council occupies the so ...

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{{Localities and communities of the MacDonnell Region, state=collapsed Populated places in the Northern Territory MacDonnell Region