Outback Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
vast, remote, arid low population areas of Australia
About Outback
The Outback is a term, likethe bush, which local inhabitants have used for a long time to describe – initially after European settlement – the unexplored regions, and since it has all been explored – the big area where settlements or occupied locations are spread across vast distances. Intensive agriculture on the coastal areas has animals per hectare, in the outback, it is hectares per animal. The outback is often characterised as "dry", but this is not always true: in the tropical north, the outback areas are wet as you can get anywhere on the planet and in some places like the east like Dubbo, it isn't always dry due to the nearby Warrambungles forest being nearby (the Warrumbungles aren't in the outback though), as it's usually wet because it's barely on theGreat Dividing Range. A co
Outback Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 12 sections including: