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Coober Pedy - fully dirt coated car. Coober Pedy is a unique town and a must-see destination on the Stuart Highway. It's famous for its opals, and it's interesting to note that Australia holds 95% of the world's supply of commercial opals, with most of them coming from the fields around Coober Pedy. The town has a main road with shops.
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Coober Pedy is a small desert town in Australia where the entire population lives in underground homes. With outside temperatures hovering over 100 degrees,.
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Coober Pedy, a small town in the southern Australian outback over 500 miles from the nearest city, is vast, flat, and arid.In the summer, the heat can climb to 113ºF in the shade, leaving the.
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Coober Pedy is a small town in the Outback of Southern Australia. Many of Coober Pedy's residents live underground to escape the region's immense heat. Homes, bars, a church, and more can be found underground in what the locals call "dugouts." NEW LOOK
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On the other hand, many underground homes in Coober Pedy are relatively affordable. During a recent auction , the average three-bedroom house sold for around AU$40,000 (£21,000 or US$26,000).
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Today, around 60% of Coober Pedy's 3,500 locals live underground. Coober Pedy's origins lie underground, too. About 100 years ago, a teenager discovered a piece of opal in the area. From there,.
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Below the surface, Coober Pedy is filled with bedrooms, churches, bookstores, bars, and more. It's a veritable wealth of modern amenities tucked under the earth, and it's been this way for a hundred years. This cosmopolitan town holds a population of around 3,500 people from over 45 nations, all gathered together in a strangely unique part.
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Inside Australia's underground homes. In Coober Pedy, South Australia, people don't live in houses. They live in "dugouts," - or at least, that's the reality for about half the population. Going underground is nothing unusual in this town - billed as the "Opal Capital of the World" - where digging up dirt in search of the.
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Over the decades, miners have flocked to Coober Pedy to try their luck digging glasslike, rainbow-colored opals, many of them building homes -- known as dugouts -- in the space left behind from.
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Inside Coober Pedy, Australia's Awesome Underground City By Savannah Cox | Edited By John Kuroski Published October 2, 2021 Updated November 8, 2023 In this area of Australia, harsh weather and mineral wealth mean one thing: life is better lived in the underground city of Coober Pedy. It is the number-one source of gem-quality opals in the world.
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This is largely to escape the area's stifling heat. On the surface (literally and figuratively), the town doesn't look like very much. It boasts the basic amenities; a few stores, a hospital and police station and the like. The bulk of people's homes are under the ground, though. Let's take a closer look.
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Coober Pedy is at the centre of Australia's opal mining industry. Now the town, where 60% of its residents live underground, is becoming a leader in sustaina.