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unusual facts about Australian Outback



18 Wheels of Steel

Extreme Trucker lets you be the brave trucker and deliver cargoes in any of the three main areas of the game: Yungas Road (also known as Road of Death), Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, and the Australian Outback.

Michael Bywater

A book on his journeys around the Australian Outback in a Cessna 172 continues to be a work in progress, due out 'soon'.

Triops australiensis

australiensis inhabits temporary pools of water in the arid regions of the Australian outback.


see also

Falconio

Peter Falconio (1973-2001), British tourist who disappeared in the Australian outback

Ira Block

He has photographed diverse locations in Africa, the Australian outback, the Gobi Desert, Siberia, and the North Pole where he spent three months with the late, world famous Japanese explorer, Naomi Uemura.

Jack Absalom

He also starred in a number of television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) covering survival techniques and documentaries on the Australian outback, including “Absalom's Outback” when he travelled to remote outback locations in a Chrysler Sigma.

Joe Kirkwood, Sr.

Born in Sydney, Australia, Kirkwood left home at age ten to work on a sheep station in the Australian Outback, where his boss introduced him to the game of golf.

Mary De Garis

She then travelled to the Australian outback to take up her first full-time position in Muttaburra, north-west Queensland, in 1908–09.

Ocker

In the popular multiplayer video game Team Fortress 2, the Sniper is described as a "rugged and ready crack shot ocker from the Australian outback".

The Ballad of Eskimo Nell

The True Story of Eskimo Nell is a 1975 film by Australian director Richard Franklin, in which two men, Deadeye Dick and Mexico Pete, go forth in search of the famed prostitute Eskimo Nell in the Australian Outback.