Kintore

History

The Kintore Range was named by William Tietkens during his expedition of 1889 after the Governor of South Australia, Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore. In 1979 and 1980 satisfactory water was found in four bores sunk at and near the Kintore Range. In mid-1981 an outstation (homeland) was established there and developed as a resource centre for camps elsewhere in the region, allowing the reoccupation of at least some of the Pintupi country. The community was founded in 1981, when many Pintupi people who lived in the community of Papunya (about from Alice Springs) became unhappy with their circumstances in what they saw as foreign country, and decided to move back to their own country, from which they had been forcibly removed decades earlier due to weapons testing from Woomera in South Australia, as part of the outstation movement.

Most-observed species

• Zebra Finch

  Taeniopygia guttata (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  22
• Budgerigar

  Melopsittacus undulatus (Shaw, 1805) · Aves
  19
• Masked Woodswallow

  Artamus personatus (Gould, 1841) · Aves
  16
• Singing Honeyeater

  Gavicalis virescens (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  16
• Diamond Dove

  Geopelia cuneata (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  14
• Little Buttonquail

  Turnix velox (Gould, 1841) · Aves
  10
• Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater

  Acanthagenys rufogularis Gould, 1838 · Aves
  10
• Pied Honeyeater

  Certhionyx variegatus R.Lesson, 1830 · Aves
  8

Most recent

• M 4.2 — 2016-05-16
  Western Australia
• M 4.2 — 2014-05-04
  Western Australia
• M 2.7 — 2007-07-04
  Western Australia
• M 4.2 — 2007-07-01
  Western Australia
• M 2.6 — 2006-05-24
  274 km NNW of Yulara, Australia
• M 3.9 — 2006-05-24
  265 km NNW of Yulara, Australia