australia's vast red interior, where the map gives up and the horizon takes over.
means the remote, arid, sparsely populated interior regions of australia, far from the coastal cities where most australians actually live.
from first recorded in the 1870s as settlers described land literally 'out back' of their coastal properties, the term stuck as the frontier crept inland and the name outgrew any single station's back paddock.
uluru — sacred sandstone monolith, 348 meters tall, in the northern territory
simpson desert — 180000 square km of parallel red dunes crossed by one 4wd track
birdsville track — 517 km stock route linking queensland to south australia since the 1860s
coober pedy — south australian mining town where most residents live underground to escape heat