This 1st of 3 connecting routes that take you to Uluṟu or Ayers Rock. A route to make kilometers and to enjoy the great nature in the Outback. Along the route, various options for refueling in the towns you pass through, such as Cosmo Newberry, Tjukayirla and finally in Warburton.

This route also goes through the outback, these are regions that are far from civilization. The outback covers almost three quarters of Australia and mainly extends across the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and parts of the states of Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
The term outback includes different landscapes and climatic zones. Large parts of the outback in Western Australia are inaccessible: sometimes there is no rain here for years, while in summer the temperature rises above 50 ° C. The Queensland outback, on the other hand, consists partly of tropical rainforest.

The characteristics of the outback are:
- Only a few asphalt roads are present. Farms (stations) are often located on sandy paths that can only be used by off-road vehicles. It is no exception when a farm is located 80 kilometers from the asphalt road.
- Farms are designed for self-catering. It is not a problem if a supermarket cannot be visited for weeks.
- Settlements with a few houses, a gas station, a supermarket, a garage, a bank and catering establishments are hundreds of kilometers apart.
- Children receive distance education via the radio (School of the Air) and the Internet.
- The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is called upon for serious illnesses and accidents.
Camels were imported from the Middle East in 1870. They live partly on farms, partly in the wild.
- Of the approximately 300,000 Aborigines (approximately 1.5% of the total population of Australia), approximately 20% live in the outback, most of them in reserves.

This 4 star rated route, through the Outback. Enjoy the hospitality and the great natural environment.

General info:
Western Australia (Western Australia) is the westernmost part of the Australian continent. The first Dutch to set foot there called it New Holland.

At 2,529,875 km², it is the largest state in Australia in area and covers roughly one third of the continent. Yet in 2016 there were only about 2,474,410 inhabitants. Western Australia is surrounded by the Indian Ocean to the south, west and north. To the east, the state borders the Northern Territory and South Australia; Surveyor General's Corner is where the three sub-areas meet.

The northernmost point is Cape Londonderry and the northernmost place is Wyndham. The southernmost point is 'Torbay Head' and the southernmost place is Albany. The westernmost point is Steep Point and the westernmost Denham. The entire 1,862-kilometer-long eastern border of Western Australia is its easternmost point and Eucla its easternmost. The highest place at about 750 meters altitude is the mining village of Tom Price and the highest mountain is the 1,249 meter high Mount Meharry in the Hamersley Mountains.

The 865 km Gascoyne and the 820 km Murchison are the two longest rivers in Western Australia. The largest lake, 80% of which is in Western Australia and 20% in the Northern Territory, is 3,494 km² Mackay Lake. The second largest lake is the 1,980 km² large 'Lake Barlee'. Western Australia is divided into a dozen administrative regions. There is the metropolitan region of Perth which lies to the south on the west coast. About three quarters of the total population of the state lives here.

The Aborigines have lived in western Australia for over 40,000 years. The first Europeans probably arrived there by accident, they were shipwrecked on their way to the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch navigator Dirck Hartog probably was the first European to set foot ashore. In October 1616 he left a pewter sign with the inscription "1616 the 25th of October is here arrived", on the island off Shark Bay that now bears his name. Australia was then called New Holland. In 1696 Willem de Vlamingh landed on Dirk Hartogeiland, where he replaced the sign with a new one. He took the old back with him and this can now be seen in the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. However, it ended here, the bare land was not commercially interesting.

Only in 1826 did the British claim the western part of the continent. They founded Fredrickstown, now Albany, and three years later the Swan River Colony, now Perth. The driving force behind the colonization of western Australia was James Stirling. The country had little to offer and the first settlers had a hard time. Reconnaissance expeditions were undertaken in all directions from Perth. The early settlers attempted to farm, raise sheep, and sell vegetables to American whalers or whaling themselves. From the 1840s onwards, sandalwood was cut for sale in China and horses were bred for the Indies.

From 1850 on, Western Australia became a prisoner colony due to a lack of labor. They built roads and public buildings or were deployed as workers in extensive livestock farming. Around 1870, income also began to be obtained from pearl fishing and from clearing the enormous deciduous forests. The first railways were built to carry the timber. But the West Australian population and economy really started to grow after gold was discovered in the 1880s, first near Halls Creek, along the Murchison River, in the Yilgarn and Pilbara, and finally in the eastern goldfields.

Thanks to the gold rush, there was money to invest in public buildings, ports, education and public transport. CY O'Connor designed the harbor at Fremantle and built a more than 500 kilometer long water pipeline to Kalgoorlie at the turn of the century. Thanks to this pipeline, the new drought-resistant grain variety 'Federation' and the introduction of superphosphates, the development of agriculture in the Wheatbelt region became possible. During the First World War, about 10% of the population went to the front. After the war, Soldier Settlement Schemes and similar programs for non-military personnel started farms and developed a dairy industry in the southwest of the state. The crisis of the 1930s brought innovation and grain was then shipped in bulk. The automobile began to advance and the road network was being worked on.

Western Australian industrialization didn't actually begin until World War II. Refineries and blast furnaces were started up and weapons were produced. Returning soldiers after the war caused a boom in construction. However, the railway network was gradually being phased out due to the rise of the automobile. In the 1950s, farming in the south of the Goldfields-Esperance region became possible after it became apparent that a shortage of trace elements in the subsoil could be addressed. In the 1960s, oil was found around Barrow Island and the pre-war ban on iron ore exports was lifted. From the 1980s, the Western Australian economy and prosperity began to rise in earnest thanks to Asian economic growth and demand for raw materials and agricultural products. Since then, the state has been faced with environmental problems. Salinization is occurring in agricultural areas and climate change is also making itself felt. There is more rainfall in the dry areas and less rainfall in the wetter southwest.

Western Australia is largely desert and semi-desert, including the Great Sandy Desert in the north, the Little Sand Desert and the Gibson Desert in the center, and the Great Victoria Desert in the southeast. A small portion of the Tanami Desert is located in the northeast. There are also the Kimberley, a weathered plateau in the far north and the Pilbara, a rich mineral region in the west. The vast Nullarbor Plain in the southeast is shared with South Australia.

The southwest of the state, made up of the regions of South West and Great Southern, consisted mainly of huge deciduous forests that were cleared for timber production and / or to create agricultural land in the 19th and 20th centuries. At the beginning of the 21st century, the landscape consists of remnants of forest, agricultural land and orchards and vineyards. The landscape of the more northern and eastern Wheatbelt region and the southern part of the Goldfields-Esperance region consists mainly of wide plains with wheat fields.

Western Australia is an important mining area. More than 1,000 mines are active and about 50 different minerals are extracted from the ground. In the 12 months to July 1, 2013, AU $ 102 billion worth of minerals, metals, and oil and gas was produced, and this was the third straight year that the value exceeded $ 100 billion. The main product is iron ore, in 2012-13 more than 500 million tons were exported with a value of $ 56 billion. Petroleum products, including petroleum, LNG, natural gas condensate and LPG, were worth $ 24 billion. Gold was in third place with a value of $ 9 billion. The share of mining products in the total exports of Western Australia was nearly 90% and was slightly less than half of the total exports from Australia. Almost half of the goods go to China, followed by Japan with a share of a fifth of Western Australian exports.