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Mystery continues to surround who is behind the giant figure of the Marree Man in central Australia, which can only be properly seen from the air.

Gaze on some of Australia's most remote regions a new APT seven-day return luxury 4WD journey.

There's $1000 off a four-person booking for the Opera In the Outback Air Adventure – an all-inclusive four-day "aircruise", aboard a private ATR72-500 twin-prop aircraft. As well as a spell-binding opera production at Uluru, the tour includes the dingo fence, underground Coober Pedy, the etchings of Marree Man, vast deserts, Broken Hill and the massive salt Lake Eyre. Covering vast distances in that would take weeks by land, and with all meals, drinks, accommodation and tours, this fully-escorted trip departs Melbourne on September 16, from $6490 a person twin-share. Phone 1300 766 537.

The outback comprises 70 per cent of Australia – that's 5.6 million square kilometres; half the size of Western and Eastern Europe combined. This back of beyond defines Australia, and Australians, and yet for most of us, it's as foreign as any country. Who among us has ever really seen it, let alone know where it quite begins and where it quite ends? See Also Getting there from a capital can takes days of driving; and once you're there it takes days to get anywhere else. That's why it's largely the domain of adventurous, time-rich grey nomads in four-wheel drives with enough grunt to pull t...

Epoch Times Etched into the dry sand of Australia’s barren outback is the world’s largest geoglyph, known as “Marree Man,” an enormous figure of an Aboriginal man hunting birds or wallabies with a throwing stick. Unlike other anthropomorphic geoglyphs found around the world, which were constructed by ancient civilizations, Marree Man was carved into the landscape only 22 years ago. However, its very existence presents one of the greatest mysteries Australia has ever seen; the geoglyph is so large that it is viewable from space, yet not a single witness can attest to its creation, and...