English

Etymology
From a blackened tree stump used by a group of surveyors near Blackall Queensland in 1887.

Phrase
beyond the black stump

1. context|Australia|colloquial|idiomatic extremely remote, outside the populated area.

#:*2004: �Just don't go gettin' serious,� Frank warned. �We don't want any trouble. We're gonna be beyond the black stump out there, not at the bloody Lennox Hotel.� � Leon F. Williams, Rubies of Mogok (Trafford 2004, p. 104)

See also
back o' Bourke
back of beyond
woop-woop

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