Overlanders
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"Overlander" or "Overlanders" may refer to:
- An Australian name for a Drover (Australian)Drover (Australian)A drover in Australia is a person, typically an experienced stockman, who moves livestock, usually sheep or cattle, "on the hoof" over long distances. Reasons for droving may include: delivering animals to a new owner's property, taking animals to market, or moving animals during a drought in...
who covers very long distances, with large mobs of sheep or cattle to open up new land - Overlander (train) is a rail service that operates between the cities of Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand
- Overlander, Western AustraliaOverlander, Western AustraliaThe Overlander Roadhouse is in Western Australia, between Geraldton and Carnarvon on the North West Coastal Highway.Its remoteness has led to the area around it being known as Overlander, though there is no such official locality...
, a location in Australia - Overlanders, EdmontonOverlanders, EdmontonOverlanders is a residential neighbourhood in the Hermitage area of northeast Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.The neighbourhood is bounded on the east by Victoria Trail, on the south by Yellowhead Trail, and on the north by Kennedale Ravine. To the south of Hermitage Road, the western boundary is...
, a residential neighbourhood in the Hermitage area of northeast Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - The Overlanders (film)The Overlanders (film)The Overlanders is a 1946 Australian-British film about drovers droving a large herd of cattle 1600 miles overland from Wyndham in Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland during World War II.The film was one of several produced...
, a movie about Australian drovers droving cattle across the Australian outback during World War II - The Overlanders (band)The Overlanders (band)The Overlanders were a British music group active during the 1960s.-Career:Originally playing folk songs, the band found success hard to come by during the beat era and so converted to a more mainstream sound...
, the name of a British 1960s music group - Overlander (magazine), a popular Australian 4WD magazine
- Gregor the OverlanderGregor the OverlanderGregor the Overlander is the first book of the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. It was published in 2003, and met with critical acclaim, including Kirkus Reviews Editors' Choice and New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing selection. It was featured by National Public...
, the first book of the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins - Overlanders are a species in the comic Sonic the Hedgehog (comic), they are slightly mutated descendants of humans, having only four fingers instead of five, which were created by the Xorda gene bomb launched on Earth thousands of years ago
- Overlander is used as a nickname for the Australian train The Overland
- Overlanders (British Columbia), were members of a group called the Overlander Party in British Columbia, which came to the then-colony overland from Canada.