By IBN REPORTERS

Celebrated Indigenous artist and Spinifex elder Lennard Walker has been identified as one of the seven travellers who went missing for three days en route to the remote Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara.

The three adults and four children were found alive by WA Police helicopter yesterday afternoon in the remote outback some 650kms north-east of Kalgoorlie.

The group had left Boulder on Sunday for Tjuntjuntjara but their vehicles became bogged down in floods.

Paupiyala Tjarutja Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Jon Lark said the news came as a relief to the community.

“Everybody’s so relieved and so happy,” he told the ABC.

“Clearly from the photo we can see everybody is looking very fine and healthy and happy, of course this is how we hoped they would be.”

WA Premier Roger Cook said the news was an “immense relief and a great outcome”.

“I just want to thank all the police, first responders, search parties, everyone who participated in the efforts and the operations to locate that family,” he said at a Thursday morning press conference.

Police said arrangements were being made to rescue the group and return them to Kalgoorlie with food and water to be provided in the interim.

After medical checks they are expected to be flown home to Tjuntjuntjarra.