Meanings
- abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Nullarbor Plain, a plain in Australia.
We high-tailed it for 812 kms today and it appears we will make it across the Nullarbor in less than three days.
2003, William Hogan, Gone Walkabout in Henn Boo Too, page 632 more examples
The arrested karst topography of the Nullarbor is considered to be eroding slowly (Gillieson & Spate 1992) and the surface has probably been stable for considerably longer than 30 ka.
1998, Monica M. Grady, Robert Hutchison, Meteorites: Flux with Time and Impact Effects, page 63The Eyre Highway, the only road linking the two states of South and Western Australia, runs parallel to the railway line, along the rocky coastline of the Australian Bight and six-hundred miles across the empty plains of the Nullarbor.
2015, Susan Duxbury, Up the Gum Tree - A locality defined by the South Australian government, covering a large area of western South Australia, bordering on Western Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Trans-Australian Railway.
Origin
- Latinnulla arbor“no tree”
- EnglishNullarbor
From Latin nulla arbor (“no tree”), as the area is nearly treeless.
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