[3] In 1976, local Aboriginal elders in Wiluna approached Australian explorer Stan Gratte to mount an expedition to rescue the couple.
Gratte led a search with tribal elder Mudjon for the couple which managed to locate them and bring them to Wiluna where they would both die two years later.
In reality there were several more nomadic Aboriginal people who came out of the desert after Warri and Yatungka, with the final group being the Pintupi Nine, who first contacted the western world in 1984.
[3][5][7][8][9] Peasley's The Last of the Nomads (published 1983) is an international best-selling non-fiction book that documents the life of Warri and Yatungka.
[10] Warri and Yatungka's names were used by Paul Jarman as a song title for a piece he composed in 2002 to commemorate the year of the outback.