Woop Woop (wop-wop in New Zealand) is an Australian term meaning a place that is a far distance from anything. Equivalent terms include "beyond the black stump" and "dingo woop woop" (also Australia), "the boondocks" (Southern United States) and "out in the sticks" or "the back of beyond" (UK).
Etymology
editThe term is said to have been derived from the nickname given to men who carried fleeces in shearing sheds, after the sound they made as they ran around. "Grubba Grubba" is also another version commonly found outback in the Kimberley. It was also the name of a sawmill near the town of Wilga in South West of Western Australia that was abandoned in 1984.[1] The term was used in the early 1900s to describe a mythical outback town.[2]
The term was also used in a book about The Ghan (train), published in 2021, titled The Train to Oodna-woop-woop: The story of The Ghan.[3]
Whoop Whoop is the name of an Antarctic field camp on the ice plateau 40 km (25 miles) east of Davis Station, used as a ski landing area (SLA) in late summer[4][5] when the early summer sea ice SLAs adjacent to Davis are unusable.[6]
See also
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References
edit- ^ Parry, Tom (2006). Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback. Nicholas Brealey Publishing. p. 1. ISBN 1-85788-390-X. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
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- ^ Butler, Susan (2010). The Dinkum Dictionary. Text Publishing. p. 268. ISBN 9781921799105. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ "The Train to Oodna-woop-woop - The story of The Ghan". Sarlines Railway Books. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ^ "Latest Weather Observations for Whoop Whoop". Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "This week at Davis: 18 January 2019". Australian Antarctic Division. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
- ^ "Intracontinental ski landing area locations". Australian Antarctic Division. Retrieved 23 January 2023.