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English: A map of the Australian outback. Red and dark red is the definition of the Australian Government, dark red is the definition of the Pew Trusts, and striped areas are considered the outback by the latter but not the former.
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 Marree Man is a modern geoglyph created in 1998 in Outback South Australia. It depicts an Aboriginal man hunting with a boomerang or stick. It lies on a plateau at Finniss Springs, 60 km (37 mi) west of the township of Marree in central South Australia , approximately 12 km north-west of Callanna .
Temperatures on the plain have ranged from 49.9 °C (121.8 °F) at the like-named Nullarbor, South Australia which is the fourth hottest recorded temperature (and the hottest recorded December temperature) in all of Australia, [26] to −7.2 °C (19.0 °F) at Eyre, which is the coldest recorded temperature in Western Australia.
The satellite image is from public domain NASA World Wind, the details are done in Corel Painter IX. Licensing Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation ; with no Invariant Sections, no ...
Tourism is a major industry across the Great Australian desert, and commonwealth and state tourism agencies explicitly target Outback Australia as a sought after destination for domestic and international travelers. Tourism Australia explicitly markets nature-based and Indigenous-led experiences to tourists. [49]
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.
Australian outback (4 C, 36 P) D. Deserts of New South Wales (2 P) ... Pages in category "Deserts of Australia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 ...