What is Balgo, Western Australia?
{{coord|-20.14|127.985|type:city(460)_region:AU-WA_scale:100000|format=dms|display=title}} [[File:Balgo from the air.jpg|right|thumb|alt=An aerial view of a small settlement, showing about seventy rooftops, red dirt roads and a dirt oval, with dry scrubland receding into the distance|Balgo viewed from the air]] '''Balgo''' is a small community in [[Western Australia]]. It is surrounded by the [[Great Sandy Desert]] and the [[Tanami Desert]]. It is an Aboriginal community; the area is traditionally [[Kukatja]] country. There are also some [[Pintupi]] families living there, who were [[Forced migration|displaced]] in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of them came to live here from [[Papunya]], including some of the original [[Aboriginal art|artists]] of the [[Papunya Tula]] movement. Many of them later left Balgo when [[Kintore]] and [[Kiwirrkurra]] were set up in the 1980s. In 2006, Balgo had about 460 people living there. ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline|Arte contemporaneo australiano de Balgo Hills}} * [http://www.balgoart.org.au Warlayirti Artists and Cultural Centre] * [http://www.luurnpa.wa.edu.au Luurnpa School Website] * [http://www.adedbalgo.wa.edu.au Balgo Adult Education Centre Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829043149/http://adedbalgo.wa.edu.au/ |date=2007-08-29 }} * [http://www.kutjungka.com.au Kutjungka Parish Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929184326/http://www.kutjungka.com.au/ |date=2007-09-29 }} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Towns in Western Australia]] [[Category:Indigenous Australian communities]]