Regional sacred-site guide
Sacred sites in Northern Territory
Explore 13 sacred places in Northern Territory, Australia, with a regional map and links to detailed site guides.
Traditions in Northern Territory
Site types in Northern Territory
Showing 1-13 of 13 sites in this regional guide
Ayers Rock (Uluru)
Macdonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Uluru rises 348 meters from the red desert of central Australia—a sandstone monolith that changes color with the light, from grey to orange to deep blood-red....
Burrungkuy (Nourlangie)
Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) rises from the Kakadu floodplain as a rock art complex occupied for more than 6,000 years, its Anbangbang gallery holding an x-ray-style painting...
Chambers Pillar Historical Reserve
Hugh / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
Fifty metres of red sandstone rise abruptly from the flat desert plain south of Alice Springs....
Gosses Bluff Crater, Australia
Macdonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia
In the Western MacDonnell Ranges of central Australia, a ring of mountains five kilometres across rises from the desert floor....
Kakadu National Park
West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Kakadu National Park holds the longest continuous record of human habitation on Earth....
Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve
Wauchope / Tennant Creek region, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
On the Stuart Highway between Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, granite boulders nearly two billion years old rise from the desert in stacked, balanced forms....
Kata Tjuṯa
Yulara / Mutitjulu, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
Kata Tjuṭa's 36 red conglomerate domes rise from Anangu country as an active men's ceremonial site under Tjukurpa, the traditional law that Anangu custodians hold as...
N'Dhala Gorge Nature Park
Ross River / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
N'Dhala Gorge cuts through red sandstone 90km east of Alice Springs, its walls carrying roughly 6,000 engravings made by Eastern Arrernte ancestors across two broad phases...
Nanguluwurr Art Site
Jabiru / Burrungkuy region, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
Nanguluwurr sits in a quiet rock shelter on the northern flank of Burrungkuy, along a route Bininj/Mungguy people have walked for millennia....
Napwerte / Ewaninga Rock Carvings Conservation Reserve
Hale / Alice Springs region, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
South of Alice Springs, a shallow claypan is bordered by low sandstone outcrops bearing one of the densest concentrations of rock engravings in the Northern Territory....
Simpsons Gap
Alice Springs / Tjoritja, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
A permanent waterhole cut into red quartzite walls west of Alice Springs, Simpsons Gap is Rungutjirpa to the Arrernte people — the mythological home of ancestral goanna...
Ubirr
Jabiru / East Alligator region, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
Ubirr rises above Kakadu's Nadab floodplain, its galleries layered with rock art spanning tens of thousands of years and its escarpment tied to the Dreaming journey of...
Yeperenye / Emily and Jessie Gaps Nature Park
Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia
A narrow red quartzite gap east of Alice Springs, Anthwerrke (Emily Gap) and Akepelye (Jessie Gap) mark the place where three ancestral caterpillar beings meet in Arrernte...
Key questions
Northern Territory sacred-site questions
- How many sacred sites are listed in Northern Territory?
- This regional guide currently includes 13 sacred sites in Northern Territory, Australia.
- Which traditions are represented in Northern Territory?
- The most represented traditions in the current guide include Indigenous.
- Can I view Northern Territory sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Switch to map view to compare the listed places, then open a site page for coordinates and visiting context.