Outback

There is no time in the Outback.

Only the tyranny of the distance and the control of the width.

Either you hate it or you love it.

There aren t any compromises 2. Where and what is the Outback?

The people of Australia call their country, as you know Down under. This continent is nearly 8 Mill. square kilometres large and a little bit smaller than Europe. Endless deserts cover 80% of the whole country, but however only 4% of all 18 Mill. inhabitants are living here, they call it Outback.

The Outback is translated as the land outside the door. There is no really civilization because most of the inhabitants live on the coast. On the south and east coast they live between Adelaide and Cairns, on the west coast in the area around Perth and on the north coast around Darwin. The Outback is often dangerous, because it is unusual hot and dry, but still there is a fascinating beauty.

3. Deserts and Lake Eyre Great Victoria Desert 350. 000 km2 Great Sandy Desert 260. 000 km2 Simpson Desert 250. 000 km2 Tanami Desert 184. 500 km? Gibson Desert 156. 000km? Little Sandy Desert 111. 500km? The Lake Eyre is the biggest salt-lake in the Great Attestation basin, one of the regions where it doesn t rain a lot. It covers 9325 square kilometres and it is 14 meters under the sea level. It is the deepest place of Australia. Mostly it s not filled with water. After his discovery the Lake was filled with water for 3 times.

4. Informations The Red Desert Hot hell of Australia ? Second largest desert of the world ? Landscape predominated by the colour red ? Low mountains; biggest mountain in the Outback: Mount Zeil (1531m) ? Large stream of red sand from northwest corner of Australia to it s heart in southeast direction ? In the heart of the Outback there is the gibber-plain the so called Sturt Desert with polished stones the gibbers. Area turns into a glowing furnace during summer ? Sturt nation park in the centre of Australia ? Southern part of desert low-growing bushes, northern part persevering grasses ? Aborigines immigrated from Southeast Asia 40. 000 years ago ? Outback mainly inhabited by aborigines, only a few settlements of white people ? Large number of low-growing trees offer food, resting and nesting places to great variety of birds ? Eucalyptus tree belong to the most resistant trees we know If you cross the Outback with a plane you fly hours and hours over a huge dune sea. The deep red sand sea is what the Outback is like and because of this it is so interesting for the Europeans: no people and a breath-taking landscape with huge dimensions ? Many different kinds of reptiles ? Some snakes in the Outback count to the most poisonous in the world ? Thorny Devil: spines are arranged that water runs to the mouth ? Kangaroo is the biggest animal in the Outback; some kinds of ...