SYDNEY (Reuters) - An outback town near Australia's red-hot centre barely paused on Wednesday for a heat wave that is gripping the country, fuelling fires and prompting widespread health warnings as heat records get set to tumble.
Oodnadatta, a South Australian town of about 200 people located on an old Aboriginal trading route, is forecast to record peak temperatures of 47 degrees Celsius (116.6° Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), making it one of the hottest places on Earth.
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