The Dingo Fence near Coober Pedy

Major mines and mining areas in the outback include opals at Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs, metals at Broken Hill, Tennant Creek, Olympic Dam and the remote Challenger Mine.

The Coober Pedy Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run OKA 4wd | OKA bus in the outback.

* Coober Pedy, South Australia

The Desert Cave Hotel in Coober Pedy, South Australia is built into the remains of an opal mine.

The town of Coober Pedy in South Australia is a major source of opal.

The world's largest and most valuable gem opal " Olympic Australis " was found in at the " Eight Mile " opal field in Coober Pedy.

The Mintabie Opal Field located approximately 250 km north west of Coober Pedy has also produced large quantities of Crystal opal and also the rarer black opal.

Over the years it has been sold overseas incorrectly as Coober Pedy Opal.

* Coober Pedy, an Australian opal mining town famous for its underground buildings

Under the instructions of Frankie, they have to deliver a package on the next flight to Sydney, then to Coober Pedy to meet a man named Mr. Smith.

Coober Pedy is renowned for its below-ground residences, called " dugouts ", which are built due to the scorching daytime heat.

The name ' Coober Pedy ' comes from the local Aboriginal term kupa-piti, which means ' white man's hole '.

The first European explorer to pass near the site of Coober Pedy was Scottish born John McDouall Stuart in 1858, but the town was not established until after 1915, when opal was discovered by Willie Hutchison.

Opalized mollusc shell from a Coober Pedy mine.

Coober Pedy is a very small town, about halfway between Adelaide and Alice Springs.

Interesting attractions in Coober Pedy include the mines, the graveyard, and the underground churches.

As a result of correspondence between the two clubs, the Coober Pedy golf club is the only club in the world to enjoy reciprocal rights at The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.

The town also has an Australian rules football club, the Coober Pedy Saints, who were created in 2004 and compete in the Woomera & Districts Football League.

Coober Pedy has a desert climate ( Köppen climate classification BWh ).

Coober Pedy is served by both local and national radio and television services.

Five broadcast television services operate in Coober Pedy: commercial stations Imparja Television, Southern Cross Central ( formally known as Seven Central ) and Ten Central.

Additional channels that are available in most other areas of Australia are expected to commence transmission in the Coober Pedy area around this time.

The local newspaper is the Coober Pedy News which is published weekly, updated and made available ( online only ) most Wednesdays at http :// www. cooberpedynews. com. au /

The Ghan serves the town through the Manguri Siding, 42 km from Coober Pedy, which is served by trains twice weekly in each direction.

Coober Pedy is a gateway to the outback communities of Oodnadatta and William Creek, which are both located on the Oodnadatta Track.

There is a twice-a-week mail run from Coober Pedy to these communities and other outback homesteads.

William Creek, Australia is located halfway on the Oodnadatta Track, 210 kilometres north of Marree and 166 kilometres east of Coober Pedy in South Australia.

William Creek is the entry point from Coober Pedy to Lake Eyre in the Tirari Desert.

William Creek is serviced twice weekly by the Coober Pedy Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run.

Coober Pedy is a small town in northern South Australia, 846 kilometres north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway.

According to a study carried out mainly in Coober Pedy where many speakers of both varieties reside ( although the town is on what was traditionally Arabana lands ), young speakers of Yankunytjatjara often borrow words from English and also from Pitjantjatjara ( which has expanded eastwards into Yankunytjatjara country and beyond ).

Yankunytjatjara is found in the north-west of South Australia and is one of the most easterly of the Western Desert dialects, being spoken around the communities of Mimili, Indulkana and Fregon and across to Oodnadatta and Coober Pedy ( although this latter is not on traditional Yankunytjatjara land ).

Oodnadatta is serviced twice weekly by the Coober Pedy Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run.

The Anne Beadell Highway is an outback unsealed track linking Coober Pedy, South Australia, and Laverton, Western Australia.

It is also the preferred mode of housing to communities in such extreme environments as Australia's Coober Pedy, Berber caves as those in Matmâta, Tunisia, and even Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

They also decided to film at Coober Pedy, a town featured in the film.

One example would be the town of Coober Pedy in Australia, built underground to avoid the blistering heat of the Outback.

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Trec Smith, a charter pilot flying between Marree and Coober Pedy in the remote north of South Australia spotted the figure from the air on 26 June 1998.

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Imparja was available through retransmission sites at Ceduna, Coober Pedy, Leigh Creek and Woomera in South Australia, and Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine and Bathurst Island in the Northern Territory, as well as on the Optus Aurora satellite platform.

* Coober Pedy, South Australia

An underground house in Coober Pedy, South Australia