Woop Woop
{{Short description|Australian term}}
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
The 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 the south-west of Western Australia that was abandoned in 1984.{{cite book |last=Parry |first=Tom |title=Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback |url=https://archive.org/details/australiahitchhi00parr |url-access=registration |quote=woop woop. |access-date=May 9, 2013 |year=2006 |publisher=Nicholas Brealey Publishing |isbn=1-85788-390-X |page=[https://archive.org/details/australiahitchhi00parr/page/n6 1]}} The term was used in the early 20th century to describe a mythical outback town.{{cite book |title=The Dinkum Dictionary |last=Butler |first=Susan |year=2010 |publisher=Text Publishing |isbn=9781921799105 |page=268 |url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=v8YuGCn9eIkC |access-date=10 January 2017}}
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.{{Cite web |title=The Train to Oodna-woop-woop - The story of The Ghan |url=https://www.sarlinesbooks.com.au/books/the-train-to-oodna-woop-woop-the-story-of-the-ghan/ |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=Sarlines Railway Books |language=en-US}}
Whoop Whoop is the name of an Antarctic field camp on the ice plateau {{convert|40|km}} east of Davis Station, used as a ski landing area (SLA) in late summer{{cite web |url=http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDT60803/IDT60803.89570.shtml |title=Latest Weather Observations for Whoop Whoop |work=Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology |accessdate=23 January 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/stations/davis/2019/this-week-at-davis-18-january-2019/ |title=This week at Davis: 18 January 2019 |work=Australian Antarctic Division |accessdate=23 January 2023}} when the early summer sea ice SLAs adjacent to Davis are unusable.{{cite web |url=https://www.antarctica.gov.au/antarctic-operations/travel-and-logistics/aviation/intracontinental-operations/ski-landing-area-locations/ |title=Intracontinental ski landing area locations |work=Australian Antarctic Division |accessdate=23 January 2023}}
See also
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