Outback
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The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. It is more remote than what Australians call “the bush”. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the n
View across sand plains and salt pans to Mount Conner, Central Australia
Tourism sign post in Yalgoo, Western Australia
MacDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory are found in the centre of the mainland.
Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia
Deserts of Australia
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Deserts cover about 1,371,000 km2, or 18%, of the Australian mainland, but about 35% of the Australian continent receives so little rain that it is practically desert. Collectively known as the Great
Outback
…ephemeral water courses of the Channel Country in western Queensland, the ten deserts in central and western Australia, the Inland Ranges, such as the MacDonnell Ranges, which provide topographic variation across the flat plains…
Typical landscape (Simpson Desert)
Wolfe Creek Crater in Western Australia
Pictographs known as Wandjina in the Wunnumurra Gorge, Barnett River, Kimberley, Western Australia
Strzelecki Desert in South Australia