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Australia - 'from the Old Coathanger to the Back o’ Beyond'
40,000 years before European explorers ‘discovered’ the great island continent, Aboriginal people were already singing their way across the land, flawlessly navigating vast distances across what would later be described as a featureless and deadly wilderness.
Most Australians live around the coastline, even today seeming to gather in a strip north of that first ‘Fatal Shore’ settlement at Botany Bay. But it is the great desert wildernesses of the centre that have attracted explorers and continue to lure adventurous travellers. These awe-inspiring landscapes have been given many formidable names over the years: Back o’ Beyond, the Never-Never, Beyond the Black Stump and, with typical Aussie directness, The Great Bugger-All.

Highways and railway tracks have long ago opened the interior but an extended journey across the Australian Outback remains one of the planet’s most exciting experiences.

Profile:
Area: 7,686,850 sq km
Coastline: 25,760 km
Population: 20 million
Conversation stopper: The Nullarbor Plain of western Australia covers 16,000 sq km without a single tree, yet in other parts of the country you find the world’s fastest growing tree (the Australian eucalyptus), which is capable of growing 10 metres a year.
Articles:
Red Centre - a journey across the Outback, Pt 1
Back o’ Beyond - a journey across the Outback, Pt 2
The Tomb of Kaddi-Kra - trekking in the ‘lost world’ of Wilpena Pound
Another G’day in Sydney - 24 Hours in Sydney
Two-wheeling Tassie – cycling in Tasmania
Life of a River Guide – kayaking Tasmania
Fly on the Wall - climbing and abseiling in Tasmania

 

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