Imanpa, formerly the Mount Ebenezer homestead, is a remote community in the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...

of Australia, renamed on 4 April 2007 after the eponymous administrative area.

Location

Imanpa is east of

Uluru Uluru (; ), also known as Ayers Rock ( ) and officially gazetted as UluruAyers Rock, is a large sandstone monolith. It outcrop, crops out near the centre of Australia in the southern part of the Northern Territory, south-west of Alice Spri ...

(Ayers Rock), southwest of

Alice Springs Alice Springs () is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement after Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and Palmerston, Northern Territory, Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William ...

and north of the Lasseter Highway, the main road between Uluru and the

Stuart Highway Stuart Highway is a major Australian highway. It runs from Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, in the Northern Territory, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta in South Australia; it has a distance of . Its northern and souther ...

Facilities

Imanpa is from Mount Ebenezer Roadhouse, a roadhouse owned and run by the community, along with Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area. It has a police station.

Demographics

At the

2021 Australian census The 2021 Australian census, simply called the 2021 Census, was the eighteenth national Census of Population and Housing in Australia. The 2021 Census took place on 10 August 2021, and was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ...

, Imanpa had a population of 124.

Native title determination

In April 2023, a Federal Court ruling determined in favour of the

native title Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty to that land by another colonising state. The requirements of proof for the recognition of ab ...

application lodged by Anangu seven years earlier for around of pastoral lease land that includes

Erldunda Erldunda is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. History The property was established in the 1870s by Richard Warburton who stocked it in 1884, and the property re ...

, Lyndavale, and Curtin Springs stations. The ruling, which was handed down by Justice

Mordy Bromberg Mordecai "Mordy" Bromberg Senior Counsel, SC (born 1959) is an Australian judge who was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in 2009 and as President of the Australian Law Reform Commission in 2023. He was previously a senior barrister, ...

at a gathering in Imanpa, was the first recognition of commercial rights in

Central Australia Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia. In its narrowest sense it describes a region that is limited to the town of Alice Springs and ...

References

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