Amata

Amata, formerly known as Musgrave Park, is an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Ernabella/Pukatja, Fregon/Kaltjiti, Indulkana, Mimili and Pipalyatjara).

Amata, formerly known as Musgrave Park, is an Aboriginal community in theAnangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Ernabella/Pukatja, Fregon/Kaltjiti, Indulkana, Mimili and Pipalyatjara).

Amata is part of the Amata – Tjurma electorate. The people of the Tjurma Homelands regard themselves as a separate community.

Amata was established under the name of "Musgrave Park" in 1961 by the South Australian State Government.The community was established to take the pressure off the increasing growth of Pukatja (formerly Ernabella).The aim was to use it to educate the Aboriginal people in how to work in the cattle industry.A school was opened seven years later, in 1968.The settlement was funded by the federal government as an outstation (homeland) during the 1980s.

Based upon the climate records of the nearest weather station at Marla Police Station between 1985 and 2015, Amata experiences summer maximum temperatures of an average of 37.3 °C (99.1 °F) in January and a winter maximum average temperature of 19.6 °C (67.3 °F) in June.Overnight lows range from a mean minimum temperature of 22 °C (72 °F) in January to 5.5 °C (41.9 °F) in June.Annual mean rainfall is 234.4 millimetres (9.23 in).