Wednesday 17 October 2018

DESKTOP 1903 - OUTBACK

The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia; the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas. The term "the outback" is generally used to refer to locations that are comparatively more remote than those areas named "the bush". Owing to the low and erratic rainfall over most of the outback, combined with soils which are usually not very fertile, inland Australia is relatively sparsely settled. It is here, however, that nature is at its most spectacular!

More than 90 percent of Australians live in urban areas on the coast. However the outback and the history of its exploration and settlement provides Australians with a culturally valued backdrop, and stories of swagmen, squatters, and bushrangers are central to the national ethos. The song "Waltzing Matilda", which is about a swagman and squatters, is probably Australia's best internationally known and most well-loved song. 

boriginal communities in outback regions have not been displaced as they have been in areas of intensive agriculture and large cities, in coastal areas. For this reason a significant proportion of Australia's indigenous population lives in the Outback, in areas such as the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands in northern South Australia. The total population of Outback Australia declined from 700,000 in 1996 to 690,000 in 2006.

This is a view of Mount Conner in Central Australia, well and truly in the Outback!

This post is part of the Wordless Wednesday meme,
and also part of the ABC Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Nature Notes meme.

7 comments:

  1. The color of the soil is amazing.. Nick, I could not find OLIVE FLOWERS as the link added is to my own blog and I looked around on your two blogs and didn't see it...Michelle

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  2. There was a JEOPARDY! (US) clue this week:
    #7838, aired 2018-10-10 TO START WITH, GET "OUT" $1600: Aussie tourism officials want you to know "you haven't been Down Under till you've been" here

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  3. We live in an area of declining population here on the BC coast. Once there were many resource sector jobs in logging and fishing. Now that things are mechanized there are fewer jobs and consequently, fewer people. But that's fine with us. We like living in a small town. - Margy

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  4. Gosh, what a gorgeous red that dirt wears. If I was a child, I'd want to roll in it to see if I'd get that color. lol

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  5. Hmmm i can see the Uluru at the far background, how far is it from where you are in taking this photo. What does the red soil mean, rich in iron?

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    1. It's not Uluru, it's Mt conner, Kalantikan. IF you click on the link in the post, you'll see the map.
      Yes, it's iron-rich - it's all rusty!

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  6. Hmm how I would love to see that with my own eyes… to bad it probably never will happen, thanks to your photo's I get some though

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