Woop Woop (wop-wops 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), "out in the boonies" (Western Canada), and "out in the sticks" or "the back of beyond" (UK).
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.[1] The term was used in the early 20th century to describe a mythical outback town.[2]
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.[3]
Whoop Whoop is the name of an Antarctic field camp on the ice plateau 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Davis Station, used as a ski landing area (SLA) in late summer[4][5] when the early summer sea ice SLAs adjacent to Davis are unusable.[6]
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