Outback

n. unsettled remote place (especially in Australia)

Outback refers to remote and arid areas of Australia, although the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside of the main urban areas. The term "outback" is generally used to refer to locations that are comparatively more remote than those areas deemed "the bush".The outback is home to the Australian feral camel and dingoes. The Dingo fence was built to restrict dingo movements into agricultural areas towards the south east of the continent. The marginally fertile parts, mainly within the Lake Eyre Basin, are known as rangelands and have been traditionally used for sheep or cattle farming, on sheep stations and cattle stations which are leased from the Federal Government. Whereas these grassy areas have fairly fertile clay soils, the remainder of the outback has exceedingly infertile paleosols which cannot support fodder nutritious enough for the economic raising of stock. Although the north of Australia has high (if extremely seasonal) and fairly reliable rainfall, giving it almost all the continent's runoff, the soils there are so poor and eroded (consisting mainly of ironstone or bauxite) as to make cropping impossible even with fertilisers such as superphosphate.
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Noun
1. the bush country of the interior of Australia
(hypernym) bush
(hyponym) Never-Never
(part-holonym) Australian Desert
Adjective
1. inaccessible and sparsely populated
(synonym) backwoods(a), outback(a), remote
(similar) inaccessible, unaccessible

Synonyms and related words:
Arabia Deserta, China, Darkest Africa, Death Valley, God knows where, Greenland, Lebensraum, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Sahara, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, air space, antipodes, back, back country, back of beyond, back-country, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, barren, barren land, barrens, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, clear space, clearance, clearing, desert, desolation, distant prospect, dust bowl, empty view, forests, frontier, glade, godforsaken place, heath, hinterland, howling wilderness, jumping-off place, karroo, living space, lunar landscape, lunar waste, nowhere, open country, open space, outer space, outpost, outskirts, plain, pole, prairie, salt flat, steppe, sylvan, terrain, territory, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the bush, the moon, the sticks, the tullies, timbers, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, wasteland, weary waste, wide-open spaces, wild, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodland, woodlands, woods
  

outback /'autbæk/
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