Why is it called outback in Australia???

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Julius Sumner Miller

Coz if ya go out side to your outhouse, (we don't have propa plummin yet). Which is out the back o ya house, jump the fence and keep goin, you end up in the outback. crickey,

One

Because it's out back. I mean, that's where it is, and that's why it's called that :)

67ImpalaSS

The centre of Australia is called The Outback. It got its name because it is "out-back" of the mountains of the Great Dividing Range. The outback has 3 deserts and several small mountain areas. - see there had to be a logical reason behind it & a true one.

-hope this helps you.

Ted T

Don't really know. But sitting in the middle of it at night under all those stars is absolutely awe inspiring.

vakayil k

The outback is the remote and arid interior and north of Australia, although the term colloquially can cover 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 does not officially exist within any governmental frameworks or boundaries. Many local government shires do use the term to enhance tourist appeal for their own shire (see picture at right.)

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[citation needed] .

Along with agriculture, tourism and mining are the main economic activities in this vast and sparsely settled area. Due to the complete absence of mountain building and glaciation since the Permian (in many areas since the Cambrian), the outback is extremely rich in iron, aluminium, manganese and uranium ores, and also contains major deposits of gold, nickel, lead and zinc ores. Because of its size, the value of grazing and mining is considerable.

jane c

because its at the back of everything!!!

Curious

It comes from Australian slang..."back o' Bourke"... referred to vast grazing lands out past Bourke, New South Wales, hence the "out-back" was on the way to the "Black Stump" at Blackall Queensland and then on to the "Never Never" in Northern Australia. All these are real places but it is terminology that is usually used to describe something that is along way away.

sansrival

Australia is one of the flattest land on earth. It has vast , flat interior called " the outback.'

vroom1001

it s so damn far off from the rest of us and they ***** find a name which suits the location...so outback..."OUTBACK" doesnt even make any sense...

Steph :-)

I think its were all the dangerous creatures hang-out, but in the towns and cities they aren't so prominant or common, so its kind of like going outside, from the safety of the city.

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