Welcome to Coober Pedy, the town that lives underground. Originally a mining town, many of the residents of Australia's Coober Pedy live in dugouts to escape the heat. During the town's summer months, ...
Coober Pedy is one of the few towns in Australia where you can still buy a home for less than $100,000. But if you are prepared to pay a little bit more to live in the self-described opal capital of ...
Like a hidden city, you will find underground hotels, restaurants, bars, churches and even the world’s only golf course without a blade of grass. Temperatures soar to between 35 and 45 degrees in the ...
Secret rocket tests, comets tearing across the sky and explosives warnings are normally figments of the silver screen. But at Coober Pedy's drive-in they happen all around you. Under clear desert ...
Once famed for its dugouts and abundance of opals, today Coober Pedy is rich in other gems. IT’S JUST AFTER 8AM on a sharp winter’s morning. In Coober Pedy, the famed opal-mining centre 850km north of ...
The man brought in to turn the troubled Coober Pedy council around has a radical plan he says could help fix infighting inside the Adelaide City Council. Coober Pedy Council administrator Tim Jackson, ...
The hammer has fallen on more than 33 properties that the District Council of Coober Pedy auctioned off in a bid to recoup unpaid rates. The council auctioned 33 properties to recover unpaid rates ...
Summers are so savage that the locals live underground, in subterranean ‘‘dug-outs’’. But the potential rewards are immense, with the dusty settlement surrounded by the richest opal fields on the ...
In the middle of the Australian Outback, there's a town where chimneys rise from the sand and big red signs warn people of "unmarked holes." Welcome to Coober Pedy, the town that lives underground.
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