The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia ; the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas.

It is the focal point of the vast Lake Eyre Basin and is found in South Australia, some north of Adelaide.

The total number of collection sites is limited and distributed over a vast period of time: Maotianshan Shale and Balang Formation ( China ), Burgess Shale and Bertie Formation ( Canada ), the Šárka Formation ( Czech Republic ), Emu Bay Shale ( Australia ), Idaho and Utah ( USA ).

While a continent like Australia consists of a large body of land surrounded by a fringe of continental shelf, Zealandia consists almost entirely of continental shelf, with the vast majority, some 93 %, submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean.

It sailed vast areas of the Pacific, from Cape Horn to Alaska, Guam and the Philippines, New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific.

While the various colonies in Australia were either sparsely populated or penal settlements or both, executive power was in the hands of the Governors, who, because of the great distance from their superiors in London and the resulting very slow communication, necessarily exercised vast powers.

The vast information Durkheim studied on the aboriginal tribes of Australia and New Guinea and on the Inuit was all collected by other anthropologists, travelers, or missionaries.

Though Skiing in Australia began in the northern Snowy Mountains in the 1860s, it was the construction of the vast Snowy Scheme from 1949, with its improvements to infrastructure and influx of experienced European skiers among the workers on the Scheme that really opened up the Mountains for the large scale development of a ski industry, and led to the establishment of Thredbo and Perisher as leading Australian resorts.

English is spoken in a vast number of territories including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, the United States of America, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore and Southern Africa.

The discovery of Iron Knob and Iron Monarch near the western shore of the Spencer Gulf in South Australia combined with the development by the BHP metallurgist A. D. Carmichael of a technique for ' separating zinc sulphides from the accompanying earth and rock ' led BHP ' to implement the startlingly simple and cheap process for liberating vast amounts of valuable metals out of sulphide ores, including huge heaps of tailings and slimes up to ' high.

More worrying is the fact that a recent study indicates that A. gracilipes has the potential to inhabit vast areas of continental Australia.

Named after the vast, remote, and arid outback regions in Australia — the name is intended to emphasize the moderate off-road capability of the vehicle.

The various species of Varanus cover a vast area, occurring through Africa, the Indian subcontinent from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka to China, down Southeast Asia to Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia and islands of the Indian Ocean, and South China Sea.

Although the movement emerged in Europe and a vast majority of worldshops are still based on the continent, worldshops can also be found today in North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Australia is a vast and sparsely populated country.

For Australia the reality was vast spaces with sparse populations making it difficult to consider anything that remotely looked like the European model.

Most savanna in Australia is used for grazing livestock, but in this far north, vast areas of grassland are in their original state and dotted with Darwin stringybark and Darwin woollybutt eucalyptus trees ; these grasslands are a unique and highly important ecoregion.

Elanid kites have a near-worldwide distribution, with three endemic species found in the Americas, two in Australia, one each in Africa and southern Asia, while the Black-winged Kite is found over a vast range from Europe and Africa in the west to Southeast Asia in the east.

However the Colonial Secretary, Edward Deas Thomson, saw a great future for the country when Edward Hargraves proved his theory that Australia was a vast storehouse of gold.

The base is one of the only military bases in Australia that is open to the general public, consisting of a large area of land incorporating a golf course, a library, a residential area for Defence members and their families, various area logistics and infrastructure units, a military hospital, a retail area, vast sporting facilities and the Australian Defence Force Academy.

" He postulated that the possible lack of appeal to an American audience was because " By moving Einstein to Australia, he was able to set up comic situations that appeal to the vast and inexhaustible fascination the Australians have about their own isolation and gawky charm.

This unlocked the vast interior of Australia, making it possible to tap into the Great Artesian Basin and the hidden water that made grazing viable.

Striated Pardalotes occupy a vast range of habitat types from tall mountain rainforest to arid scrubland, and are found in all parts of Australia except some of the Western Australian deserts.

During years of especially high rainfall, all the riverbeds in this vast, mostly flat, arid and semi-arid area lead inland ( not towards the sea ) towards Lake Eyre in central South Australia.

The two large families are cosmopolitan, with many of their species found in the northern hemisphere, and the smaller families are usually confined to Australia and the adjacent areas, or sometimes South America.

Apart from these there are many semi-professional and amateur leagues around Australia, where they play a very important role in the community, and particularly so in rural areas.

While this was OK for Europe, it meant that GSM could not cover large, sparsely populated rural areas of Australia cost effectively.

For this reason a significant proportion of Australia's indigenous population lives in the Outback, in areas such as the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands in northern South Australia.

Travelling in remote areas in northern Australia is not advisable during the wet season ( November to April ), as heavy tropical downpours can quickly make dirt roads impassable.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

Some people speak Celtic languages in the other Celtic diaspora areas of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Major cities in Australia have suburban railway systems in their metropolitan areas.

In the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and other areas whose cultures were recently linked to the UK, the title Doctor generally applies in both the academic and clinical fields.

In reality, Mount Isa is the second largest city in Australia ; there are several cities around the world with larger incorporated areas.

In an effort to reduce vandalism, many cities in Australia have designated walls or areas exclusively for use by graffiti artists.

The main mining areas are China, USA, Brazil, Sri Lanka, India and Australia with reserves expected to exceed one million tonnes.

The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles ( called desert pavement or gibber plains ) and salt lakes.

As this area has had very limited use for agriculture, habitats remain largely undisturbed while parts of the desert are protected areas including Mamungari Conservation Park ( formerly known as Unnamed Conservation Park ) in South Australia, a large area of pristine arid zone wilderness which possesses cultural significance and is one of the fourteen World Biosphere Reserves in Australia.

Category: Protected areas of Western Australia

The main mining areas are China, United States, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, and Australia with reserves of holmium estimated as 400, 000 tonnes.

The last 15 – 20 years has also seen Hobart's wine industry thrive as many vineyards have developed in countryside areas outside of the city in the Coal River Wine Region and D ' Entrecasteaux Channel, including Moorilla Estate at Berriedale one of the most awarded vineyards in Australia.

Some smaller areas are Australia, the wooded area for wolves, and the so-called swimming area with many seabirds.

Large reserves of hydrocarbons are being tapped in the offshore areas of Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, and Western Australia.

Here, the " LGA Structure covers only incorporated areas of Australia.

* Himantandraceae ( two species of trees and shrubs, found in tropical areas in Southeast Asia and Australia )

In 2006, Fraser launched a " scathing attack " on the Howard Liberal government, attacking their policies on areas such as refugees, terrorism and civil liberties, and that " if Australia continues to follow United States policies, it runs the risk of being embroiled in the conflict in Iraq for decades, and a fear of Islam in the Australian community will take years to eradicate ".

The main mining areas are in China, the United States, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, and Australia.