outback

While its telescopes continued scanning the distant universe, unusually generous winter rains brought the surrounding outback to life in a brilliant display of wildflowers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Camels with "a bit of fire in them" raced in a remote Australian outback town this weekend at an annual event celebrating the desert beasts first imported in the mid-19th century.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

It forms rust on land when exposed to oxygen, as seen in Australia's red outback landscapes, which preserve features ranging from millions to billions of years old.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026

As I step out into this next phase of life, I do sometimes find myself missing the chaos of Hanoi or the wide-open spaces of the Australian outback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

“Oh, they’re all over the outback of Ethiopia,” Inkling says.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

He’s read the great classics as well — Chaucer, for example — and is amused that people living in rural outbacks didn’t spend their college years in Middle English seminars.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2015

Several trouble spots remain, but hundreds of families are returning to their lands in seven newly declared zones of "total pacification" in the outbacks.

From Time Magazine Archive