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Tourism sign post in Yalgoo, Western Australia. The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia.The Outback is more remote than the bush.While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropical and monsoonal climates in northern areas, arid areas in the ...
The Outback Highway or Outback Way is a series of roads and dirt tracks linking Laverton, Western Australia and Winton, Queensland. At 2,719 km (1,690 mi), it crosses Central Australia (colloquially known as the Outback ), passing through Western Australia , the Northern Territory and Queensland .
The Outback Region has a population of 12,496 (as of census of 2006, on an area of 834,679.8, which makes for a population density of 0.015 per km². The largest town is the mining town Roxby Downs (pop. 4055).
A 2005 study by Australian and American researchers investigated the desertification of the interior, and suggested that one explanation was related to human settlers who arrived about 50,000 years ago. Regular burning by these settlers could have prevented monsoons from reaching interior Australia. The outback covers 70 percent of the continent.
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Survivor: The Australian Outback (also referred to as Survivor: Australia) is the second season of the American reality television series Survivor.Broadcast by CBS, it was originally shown between January 28 and May 23, 2001.
Australian author Rosa Praed wrote the 1915 novel Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land. The slogan " You’ll Never Never Know, If You Never Never Go " was used in the 1990s for a TV advertising campaign featuring Daryl Somers for promoting tourism to the Northern Territory to people in other parts of Australia.
Broken Hill is a city in the far west region of outback New South Wales, Australia.An inland mining city, it is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range.