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Back of beyond   /bæk əv bɪˈɑnd/   Listen
Back of beyond

noun
1.
A very remote and inaccessible place.






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... 'get-rich-quick' would be the order of the day for every true adventurer. These mountains moved about in men's imaginations and on prospectors' maps, always ahead of the latest pioneer, somewhere behind the Back of Beyond. They and their glamour died hard. Even that staid geographer of a later day, Thos. Jeffreys, added to his standard atlas of America, in 1760, this item of information on the Far Northwest: Hereabouts are supposed to be the Mountains of Bright Stones ...
— Elizabethan Sea Dogs • William Wood



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