G'day Raggytash,

Without endorsing alinact's inspired guess (it does sum up the Great Sandy Desert, or wherever, but it seems a bit too obscure for a song lyric ... unless there is some earlier reference - and this is the first verse!) I did note that the maps show a lot of regions named "Great" something something.

There's the Great Sandy Desert that I mentioned above, a Great Australian Basin (west of the Great Dividing Range)as well as (ranging a bit wider) the Great Artesian Basin, the Great Australian Bight, The Great Barrier Reef, Great Keppel Island, Great Ocean Road, Great Oyster Bay, Great Sandy Island, Great Victoria Desert, Great Western Tiers ... and the continent was once known as the Great South Land ... (but I must admit that we just can't equal Virginia and North Carolina's Great Dismal Swamp!

But the thing I realised about all these "Greats" is that they don't get abbreviated to TLAs: I might have worked for the SMA (Snowy Mts Authority) and the HEC (Hydro Electric Commission) or travelled down to the MIA (Murrimbidgee Irrigation Area), passing through the ACT (Australian Capital Territory ... [is that what al is in?]) but there is something about the first word "Great" that stops you abbreviating the following words.

I don't know if a full text for the song would help explain (... Raggytash?), but then, if it did we would not need this thread.

Regards,

Bob Bolton