Desert
Outback
Outback noun - A rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country.
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In The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the character played by Terence Stamp chooses to stay in the outback with a new love interest instead of going back to Sydney.
Source: I Choose to Stay - The Sunraycer, a solar powered vehicle, was very awesome, winning a race across the Australian Outback, but very impractical, being a one-seater that could only work in a desert.
Source: Awesome But Impractical / Film -
Although Fair Game is set in the present day, the Outback is portrayed as a sparesely populated desert wasteland where desert punks and sex-starved hunters butcher kangaroos and harrass vulnerable women.
Source: Land Downunder
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