The Most Isolated Towns in Australia — 1,000km From Anything

Australia is the most urbanised continent on Earth — 85% of the population lives within 50km of the coast. But deep in the interior, there are towns held together by a single pub, a single bore, a single landing strip, or a single railway line. Towns where the nearest hospital is a four-hour flight, where supplies arrive on 50-metre road trains, and where a broken-down car in the wrong place can kill you. In this video, we visit the most isolated communities in Australia — from a desert settlement 1,200km from the nearest city where one of the last first-contact events in history took place in 1984, to a railway town on the Nullarbor with a population of four, to a Queensland pub that imports 80,000 cans of beer once a year when its population multiplies by 100. These places exist at the edge of viability. The people who live in them have chosen to stay — and their reasons are worth understanding. ⏱️ Timestamps: 0:00 — Introduction 0:43 — Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia 3:15 — Cook, South Australia 5:39 — Birdsville, Queensland & Coober Pedy, South Australia 9:40 — William Creek, South Australia 11:27 — Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia 13:18 — How Isolation Actually Works 📌 Places featured: Kiwirrkurra — Australia's most remote community, 1,200km from Port Hedland Cook — Population 4, the Queen City of the Nullarbor Birdsville — Population 110, home of the Birdsville Races Coober Pedy — The underground opal capital of the world William Creek — Population 3, gateway to the largest cattle station on Earth Tjuntjuntjara — The Spinifex People who chose to go home If you enjoyed this, check out our other video: 10 Creepy Ghost Towns Hidden Across Australia — [LINK] 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications — new videos every week. #RemoteAustralia #IsolatedTowns #AustralianOutback #CooberPedy #Birdsville #Kiwirrkurra #Nullarbor #OutbackAustralia #RFDS #Documentary