Talk:Outback

External links for research

Removed the following per our external links policy, but they may be good for research:

Royal Flying Doctor Outback Travel Information Exploring the beauty of Australia away from the cities can be quite an adventure but we urge you to pay attention to some safety tips and general information which should make your trip more enjoyable and very importantly - safer.

Road Trains Here are some important safety tips about sharing the road with Road Trains from the Northern Territory to download

NRMA Outback Tracks

(WT-en) Hypatia 17:53, 25 September 2006 (EDT)

Merge

This district doesn't make sense, as it bridges multiple states. We have to merge this article into the relevant states and let this one redirect somewhere. (WT-en) Globe-trotter 22:08, 22 December 2009 (EST)

No, the Outback is a region that needs its own article. Especially important are the safety warnings. If you want a precedent for a region bridging several states, look at the various regions of the USA: South_(United_States_of_America), New England, Mid-Atlantic etc. I have changed it back.122.107.15.145 10:10, 3 May 2010 (EDT)

That comparison doesn't quite work—Mid-Atlantic contains states, while Outback cuts across them. That is, it doesn't fit into our Project:Geographical hierarchy.

That said, as long as we acknowledge that it's an extra-hierarchical region, it shouldn't do any harm. And there is useful travel writing here, so it's not as though someone created a blank region outline that serves no purpose. --(WT-en) Peter ^Talk 10:28, 3 May 2010 (EDT)

Still very much an outline needing lots of qualification - the generalisations are far too loose for any adequate understaning of the variations - it is important to stay as a single article - but hey a lot of work still required. sats (talk) 09:46, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Warrambungles?

The article says "in the east like Dubbo, it isn't always dry due to the Warrambungles being nearby." Warrambungles redirects to Central West (New South Wales), where the term isn't mentioned. A non-Aussie cannot be expected to know what it refers to. Warrambungles should be linked or explained here, and explained in the redirect target. –LPfi (talk) 08:40, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Fixed that redirect so it now leads to the park article (also created a Warrambungles redirect since that's a very common misspelling, and I've even seen in the NSW Parks website). And more specific, I don't think anyone outside even New South Wales will know that. On another note, I'm not quite sure whether the Warrumbungles are even in the Outback. Dubbo is barely on the outback and it varies by definition. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 09:04, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Banner

Surely camels are more surprising to see than kangaroos. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 11:51, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Banner 0

Banner 1

Looks like Arabia, but a much better picture. Support Banner 1 per nom. Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:13, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Banner 1 is surely a much higher quality image any way you cut it, but camels over kangaroos as the focus? I don't know really... Vidimian (talk) 14:08, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Banner 1 but per Vidimian, would prefer an image of kangaroos if possible. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 17:31, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Done – but I have to ask, why kangaroos? I'm probably biased, but they're not unique to the Outback after all – they can found in very very tropical areas like Cape York at 10° south from the equator, to 43° south in Southwest National Park, both of which are not the Outback. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 11:21, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

To me (and perhaps to many other outsiders) "Outback" is shorthand for "somewhere remote in Australia" (followed by "it's flat, inland, with reddish soil and sparse vegetation" when I think more about it). Which animal but kangaroos (if any) could represent "somewhere remote in Australia" better? Vidimian (talk) 12:15, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

So out of curiosity, would many regard some of the tropical rainforests in Far North Queensland which is very remote and hard to get to as "Outback", or is that corner just not thought about? (I'm just curious to know) SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 12:18, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

I'm not sure about the others, but I wouldn't consider anywhere covered in rainforests as part of the Outback off the top of my head — the Outback evokes images of Australia's arid interior to me, even if (I don't know whether) the northern tropical areas or elsewhere on the coast are properly considered within the Outback by the Australians. Vidimian (talk) 12:25, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

It's a bit ambiguous whether the north would be considered as the "Outback" though. I would certainly consider the northwest to be the Outback, but not the Top End or the Far North. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 12:31, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Alternative banner for this article?

Banner currently used in this article

Suggested new alternative banner

I created a an alternative banner for the parallel article on the Hebrew Wikivoyage, and I thought I would also suggest we use it here. For me the alternative banner looks much more like the Australian Outback than a banner with camels. Which banner do you prefer having at the top of this article? ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 16:27, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

I'd keep the camels. The alternative image is boring to me. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:33, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Ditto – it also looks a bit too NT-centric to me as well. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 21:40, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

If this is the Outback, shouldn't it have kangaroos in it? Mrkstvns (talk) 23:37, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

I can drive 20 minutes from where I live (almost dead centre of Sydney) to see kangaroos outside captivity, though. Not Outback-specific, I'm afraid. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 12:41, 7 June 2023 (UTC)