Kulgera is a small bush town surrounded by thousands of kilometres of cattle station. It is Pitjantjatjara country, and Aboriginal paintings can be found at sites in the area.

According to archaeological evidence, the area has been occupied by the Luritja Aboriginal people for at least 25,000 years. Kulgera and the nearby Mount Cavanagh stations were established as sheep farms in the late 1920s, but converted to cattle in the 1960s due to drought, poor wool prices and labour costs.

The realignment of the Stuart Highway in 1947 saw Kulgera become a highway stopover and in 1955 a store was built, the forerunner of the Kulgera Roadhouse today.

It is 275 kilometres (171 mi) south of Alice Springs and 21 kilometres (13 mi) north of the border with South Australia, making it the southernmost permanent settlement in the Northern Territory. It sits on the junction of the Stuart Highway and the road to Aputula (Finke).

A pastoral lease of 1,370 square kilometres (530 sq mi) to the north east of the outcrop was granted to the Coulthard family in 1928 and was named Kulgera Station

Kulgera is the Pitjantjatjara name for an outcrop of granite rocks just east of the settlement. According to Nicolas Rothwell, Kulgera is derived from kalgka in the Pertam language of the mountains and that word "refers to a particularly private recess of a private part of the female anatomy".

A "sacred site for women" refers to a place in nature or within a community that holds deep spiritual significance specifically for women, often associated with rites of passage, fertility, creation, and ancestral connection, where women can perform ceremonies or rituals exclusive to their gender, usually with restricted access to men based on cultural traditions; essentially, a space considered particularly sacred and important to the female experience within a community. 

Birthing sites: Places where women traditionally gave birth, considered sacred due to the creation of new life. 

Connection to the feminine: Often linked to aspects of the female life cycle like menstruation, childbirth, and menopause.