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You find the town of Marree in South Australia, lazing at the junction of two legendary outback Tracks, the Birdsville and the Oodnadatta.
The Birdsville Track was the main stock route between Marree and Birdsville in Queensland during the 1880s, a long and extremely harsh journey of about five weeks.
Cattle didn’t often survive the [...]

What is the Outback ? A quick dip into Roget’s Thesaurus produces ‘backwoods, godforsaken place, the sticks,’ but the Outback is none of these. It’s as broad and varied as the vast distances between the remote communities and the ancient landscapes are unlike any other on the planet.
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Birdsville, between the sands of the Simpson Desert and the gibber plains of Sturt’s Stony Desert is the starting point of the famous Birdsville Track, which stretches to the south , running along the flank of the Simpson Desert.  It’s not simple to get there, even from within Australia. The Track runs from the [...]