Emily Gap

[1] It is a registered sacred site and sits within the Yeperenye / Emily and Jessie Gaps Nature Park.

In doing so they did not realise or acknowledge that they were camping at a very sacred site and Stuart Traynor says that:[4] The men had no concept of Aboriginal spirituality or any inkling that what they had done was akin to taking livestock inside a cathedral.Emily and Jessie Gaps are apocryphally thought to have been named for the daughters of Charles Todd, however the true basis of the names remain unknown.

[4] Around 300-350 million years ago a mountain building event created the MacDonnell Ranges.

The ranges are composed of many rock types, but are most famous for their red quartzite peaks and gorges.

Some of the valleys of the range contain fossil evidence of the inland sea that once covered central Australia.