Outback
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Date: 2021-12-05

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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, which includes any location outside the main urban areas.
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 "red centre" and semi-arid and temperate climates in southerly regions.
Geographically, the Outback is unified by a combination of factors, most notably a low human population density, a largely intact natural environment and,
in many places, low-intensity land uses, such as pastoralism （livestock grazing） in which production is reliant on the natural environment.
The Outback is deeply ingrained in Australian heritage, history and folklore.
In Australian art the subject of the Outback has been vogue, particularly in the 1940s.
In 2009, as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Queensland Outback was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as a "natural attraction".
The Dingo Fence near Coober Pedy Aerial view of Kata Tjuta Indigenous Australians have lived in the Outback for approximately 50,000 years and occupied all Outback regions,
including the driest deserts, when Europeans first entered central Australia in the 1800s.
Many Indigenous Australians retain strong physical and cultural links to their traditional country and are legally recognised as the Traditional Owners of large parts of the Outback under Commonwealth Native Title legislation.
Early European exploration of inland Australia was sporadic.
More focus was on the more accessible and fertile coastal areas.
The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mou...