Wallace Rockhole is a small Aboriginal community located 117 kilometres west of Alice Springs. To get there, it is a 100 kilometre drive along Larapinta Drive on a sealed road, and then 17 kilometres of graded dirt road. It is the home for approximately one hundred people, although this fluctuates from time to time. The languages spoken are Western and Southern Arrarnta.

Wallace Rockhole is the traditional home of the Abbott family. In the past, it was a regular camping spot for the family when they had time off from working on the surrounding cattle stations, particularly the Owen Springs and the Hermannsburg Cattle Stations. In 1974, the outstation movement started and the Abbott family and seven other families formed a small close-knit community. They cleared the surrounding scrub and three or four tin sheds were constructed under the bloodwood trees. In 1983 the cattle station was subdivided into five different land trusts and handed over to different families. Wallace Rockhole is part of the Roulpmaulpma Aboriginal Land Trust area.

The first families who came to Wallace Rockhole aspired to build a community where they and their children could live with pride and dignity whilst still retaining their traditional values.

Source: "Wallace Rockhole Health Profile" compiled by the Population Health Unit, Territory Health Services, Nov. 1998