Aputula is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is south of Alice Springs, 159 km (99 mi) east of the Stuart Highway, near the South Australia and Northern Territory border. The Finke River (dry for most of the year, except during occasional floods) passes within a few kilometres of the community, on its way to Lake Eyre in the north of South Australia. Aputula holds the record of having the two hottest days ever recorded in the Northern Territory—48.3 °C (118.9 °F) on 1 and 2 January 1960.