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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 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).
1:250,000 scale topographic map of Outback Nunataks showing the course of the U.S. Victoria Land Traverse party 1959–60. Region to the north Region to the east Region to the south. The terrain to the west of the nunataks is a featureless expanse of the polar plateau. [2] The Emlen Peaks of the Usarp Mountains and the Helliwell Hills are to ...
The Oregon Outback generally refers to the area in Lake, Klamath, Malheur and Harney counties. Oregon Outback is an unofficial term generally used to reference the high desert Basin and Range country of the central southern portion of the U.S. state of Oregon and covers most of Lake County, Klamath County, Malheur County, and Harney County.
Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. [1] In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history , anthropology , ecology , geology , environmental studies , literary studies , and other fields.
Solidified lava flow in Hawaii Sedimentary layers in Badlands National Park, South Dakota Metamorphic rock, Nunavut, Canada. Geology (from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) 'earth' and λoγία () 'study of, discourse') [1] [2] is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. [3]
The desert or semi-arid land commonly known as the outback makes up by far the largest portion of land. [175] Australia is the driest inhabited continent; its annual rainfall averaged over continental area is less than 500 mm. [ 176 ] The population density is 3.4 inhabitants per square kilometre, although the large majority of the population ...
The definition of what is an Australian Western (i.e. taking its influence from US cinema) and what is simply an Australian historical film set in the era that covers similar themes, is fluid. Cinema about bushrangers, which some regard as Australian Westerns, goes back to some of the first Australian feature films. [3]