Jay Creek or Iwupataka[1][2] is in the MacDonnell Ranges 45 kilometres (28 mi) west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory in Australia.
[3] The settlement is now largely abandoned and is considered a ghost town and it is a significant site for many Aboriginal people who were sent to The Bungalow or later sent there when it became a Reserve and their descendants.
There were delays in preparing the site that mostly related to the inability to ensure sufficient water access and it was not until November 1928 that the children (45 in total; 37 who were under the age of 12)[6] were moved there alongside Ida Standley and Topsy Smith who worked there.
[7][9] Another worker for The Bungalow that lived with them there at Jay Creek was Hetty Perkins, she worked there in order to be able to stay with her younger children, who were in the care of the Institution, and she gave birth to another child there, named May, in 1931.
There are a number of remains at the site including the former home of Ted Strehlow, a church (which Moses Tjalkabota once led),[14] a cemetery and pre-fabricated buildings that were built in the late-1940s and throughout the 1950s .