For years it’s been a barren salt flat. But now, due to floods hundreds of miles away, Australia’s Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre appears set to fill for only the fourth time in 160 years.

Portions of the arid Australian Outback saw more than a year’s worth of rain in just a week at the end of March 2025, unleashing destructive floods throughout the region.

Surviving the Australian Outback: Trouble in Paradise! Posted: April 29, 2025 | Last updated: April 29, 2025. What started as a dream adventure quickly turned into one of our toughest challenges yet.

The Outback is a land of emptiness. This semi-arid area in the heart of Australia comprises more than 70 per cent of the country's territory, but is home to just 5 per cent of its population.

Australia’s remote outback in western Queensland has been swamped by flooding after being lashed with a year’s worth of rainfall in a week, sweeping away tens of thousands of livestock. Up to ...

“His love of the outback was genuine, and his tours were the first of the kind of what have now become very well-established in Australia. “Bill was the first to really focus and concentrate on the ...

A hike through Australian outback’s Red Centre reveals scenery straight out of a painting A trail from Alice Springs takes hikers through a baking landscape of mountains, pools, plants and trees ...

In the Australian outback, climate change widens the racial divide. In the scorching Australian opal mining town of Coober Pedy, White people live in cool “dugouts” while their Aboriginal ...

“Crocodile Dundee ” is a cult classic film that continues to captivate international audiences regarding life in the Australian Outback. Inspired by the true adventures of Rod Ansell, this 1986 comedy ...

The Outback fills some 70 percent of the massive island continent of Australia, roughly the size of the U.S. It’s scantly populated, except for the more than 150 species of venomous snakes ...

The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s interior — an area roughly ...