Over half of Australia lies within the tropics, but it is home to only five percent of the population. It is a frontier land with little infrastructure, populated by cattle barons, crocodile hunters and aboriginal tribes.

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

Australia’s Northern Territory(NT) is region that is climatically inhospitable to large human settlements and is the least population region of the lightly population country.   Uluru (Ayer’s Rock) is the Northern Territory’s iconic landscape, and it is home to approximately 212,000 people according to the 2011 Australian census.  Most of the economic activity centers on resources extraction (mining); aboriginal groups control 1/5th of the NT which many hope to discourage.  This photo gallery provides a excellent glimpse into these remote places.

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