The phrase "in the back of beyond" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a remote or isolated place, often implying that it is far from civilization.
Example: "After driving for hours, we finally reached a cabin in the back of beyond, surrounded by nothing but trees and mountains."
Alternatives: "in the middle of nowhere" or "off the beaten path."
Perhaps sensing that we might need to be eased gently into life in the back of beyond, Elise chose two of the larger, "five paw" rated camps.
But our preference is naturally for off-road trails – even on a country lane in the back of beyond, where you're worried about a tractor lurching over the next hill.
The story of what happened is complicated, a tale of sex and power and tribal custom in a part of southern Punjab Province that is "in the back of beyond, even in Pakistan," as one government minister described it.
Why did Kabakov, who was born in 1933 in Dnepropetrovsk – then a town in the Soviet Union [now in eastern Ukraine] – and who has been Russia's best-known artist since the 1980s, decide to come and work here, in the back of beyond, in a country where he barely speaks the language?
Australia has a long history of teaching children whose parents have actually chosen to live in the back of beyond, in tiny communities which don't have adequate schooling.
He has been marooned in the back of beyond, hard-pressed for cash, silenced and exiled by a military government.
These days the Welsh coast is somewhere to relax and find peace and quiet, it's the farthest-away-bit in a country that is the back of beyond, but it wasn't always so.
The flight takes three hours and even now people in Tahiti regard Hiva Oa as the back of beyond, emphasising how far from home Gauguin ended up.
Strange Colours (which premiered at last year's Venice film festival and subsequently screened at festivals in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth) belongs to a long line of films that contemplate remote Australian locations and the people who inhabit them – from The Back of Beyond to Wake in Fright and the Mystery Road series.
Instead, it's the setting that she still responds to, she writes: "A typical settlement on the very edge of the Back of Beyond, a last outpost in a steadily diminishing rainfall belt; not far away westward began 2,000 miles of the Never-Never, the desert lands where it could not rain".
