Fresh details on the "remarkable" discovery of a German backpacker who was missing after spending 12 days in the Australian outback, have been revealed.

German backpacker Carolina Wilga lost hope of rescue after 11 nights in the Australian bush, and only made it out by “sheer luck,” police said Saturday.

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The mother of a backpacker missing in Australia for nearly two weeks has issued a heartbreaking plea for help as police confirmed her abandoned vehicle had been found.

AUSSIE cops are desperately searching for a missing backpacker after her van was found abandoned following a haunting final message to a friend. Carolina Wilga has not been seen or heard from

Carolina Wilga, 26, from Germany, has been missing for 12 days in a remote part of Australia around 200 miles from Perth and police are now searching an area near where her van was found