Other than agriculture and tourism, the main economic activity in this vast and sparsely settled area is mining.

Owing to the low and erratic rainfall over most of the outback, combined with soils which are usually not very fertile, inland Australia is relatively sparsely settled.

Most of the lands of the New Forest are poor agricultural lands, and archaeological and geographic studies have shown that the New Forest was likely sparsely settled when it was turned into a royal forest.

In the sparsely settled American colonies, money, as it always does, arose in the market as a useful and scarce commodity and began to serve as a general medium of exchange.

The Pony Express built many of their eastern stations along the Oregon / California / Mormon / Bozeman trails and many of their western stations along the very sparsely settled Central Route across Utah and Nevada.

There are also offshore islands in the ocean, and some relatively sparsely settled plains to the east of the Voltai.

Between the 17th and 19th century, migrants settled eastwards in the vast, sparsely inhabited areas of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

The islands were sparsely settled and a haven for pirates until the late 18th century when thousands of British loyalists and their slaves were given compensatory land grants following the American Revolution.

The opposite bank of the Biała River, again Polish since 1475, had been sparsely settled since the mid-16th century.

A stranger, wearing buckskin and a six shooter, calling himself Shane ( Alan Ladd ), rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled territory of Wyoming.

The county remained sparsely settled ranching territory for two decades after 1880.

Located deep in the rugged, wooded hills of Southern Missouri, the area remained sparsely settled throughout the 19th Century.

Lewis Cass in 1819, sparsely settled Oakland was twice its current size at first, but shrank as Michigan's population grew and new counties were established.

The county then was sparsely settled and many residents were pro-Union, since slaves were few, plantations almost nonexistent, and news came via White River travelers, not from the southern part of the state.

The area remained only sparsely settled, supporting some farming and lumber activity on some of the higher ground, as well as a number of taverns or " hotels " along the ridge roads.

By the 1860s, Fort Payne and the surrounding area were still sparsely settled.

She built Rancho Nezhone, a luxury guest ranch that drew the rich and famous to the sparsely settled area far north of Tucson.

It was first sparsely settled by French and German Catholics in the mid-19th century, and the first church, St. Andrew's Church, was built in 1851, and although it no longer exists, a major local road still bears its name.

In 1840, the steam-powered Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad ( A & ER ) was built across a sparsely settled farming community that would later become Odenton.

The area that was to become Oak Park existed within Royal Oak Township, and was first settled in 1840, but remained sparsely populated for many decades following.

The hilly terrain and relatively poor soil quality meant that only a pasture / livestock-based agriculture was viable, and the area was sparsely settled compared to other areas of Broome County.

Discontent with the sparsely settled communities of Palatine Germans in the Mohawk Valley to the north, which Hartwick believed made people immoral, he bought the original Hartwick Patent with the intent to build a " New Jerusalem ".

Dr. William Rainey Holt built Lexington's oldest home, The Homestead, listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, North Carolina | National Register of Historic PlacesThe Lexington area was at least sparsely settled by Europeans in 1775.

Before No Man's Land was opened for settlers in 1890, the area now known as the Oklahoma Panhandle was sparsely settled ranchland.

From the time of the Wannamoisett purchase in 1645 to the Civil War, the shore land from Watchemoket to Bullocks Point had remained a sparsely settled fishing and farming area.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

Siberia remained a mostly undocumented and sparsely populated area.

Islands such as Ruissalo, Hirvensalo and Kakskerta, forming the southern part of the city, are also sparsely populated and mostly contain summer residences, with the exception of some districts in Hirvensalo which are currently growing into upper-middle-class suburbs.

The road system leading from Nome is extensive, though sparsely used during the winter months and leads mostly through remote terrain

For most of the second half of the 20th century, the area of Long Neck was sparsely populated, except for several mobile home communities that served mostly as summer vacation properties for permanent residents of the Washington, DC, Baltimore, Maryland, Wilmington, Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metropolitan areas.

The village is in the sparsely populated southwest corner of Cheboygan County, lying mostly within Nunda Township, though a small portion lies in adjacent Wilmot Township.

The area remained sparsely populated for nearly 60 years, consisting mostly of farmland and wilderness.

Despite having 88 incorporated cities and towns, including the state's most populous, 65 % of the land in Los Angeles County is unincorporated, this mostly consisting of Angeles National Forest and sparsely populated regions to its north.

The majority of human settlements are built on the drier strips of limestone, whereas the more poorly-draining clays ( which comprise the greater bulk of the area ) are more sparsely populated, supporting mostly small farms, dotted across the vale.

The Gyepű was a strip of land that was specially fortified or made impassable, while gyepűelve was the mostly uninhabited or sparsely inhabited land beyond it.

The northern section of the county is mostly sparsely populated wilderness with numerous rivers and lakes, mostly within the recently expanded Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park.

" It combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

The extreme north is mostly sparsely inhabited wilderness with few enduring settlements.

It is a very sparsely populated and undeveloped region with its population highly concentrated along the coast, mostly at Sept-Îles ( about three-fourths of the population ).

The population is concentrated mostly in eastern, northern and central part of the SNNPR while the western and southern part of the Region is sparsely populated.

The coastal Uusimaa had earlier been sparsely populated, mostly by Tavastians, but was from the 12th century populated by Swedish settlers, mostly from Hälsingland, and Swedish-speaking villages came up near the mouths of Vantaanjoki and Keravanjoki.

Reciprocally, the Tatars living under the Ottoman rule launched raids in the Commonwealth, mostly in the sparsely inhabited south-east territories of Ukraine.

The municipality is sparsely populated and is mostly characterized by with forests and boglands.

The rest of the municipality consists of sparsely populated, mostly wooded areas.

In Pakistan Wakhi is spoken in the sparsely populated upper portions of five of the northernmost valleys: Hunza ( many ethnic Wakhi of this valley now speak Burushaski ), Gojal that including the valleys of Chipursan and Shingshal, ( Upper-Hunza — mostly intact ), Ishkoman ( many ethnic Wakhi speak, now, Shina ), Yasin ( many ethnic Wakhi of this valley speak, now, Khow-wor or Burushaski / Virchik-wor ), Gupis ( many ethnic Wakhi speak, now, Shina ) and Yarkhun ( many ethnic Wakhi of this valley now speak Khow-wor ).