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.

* 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 a town in northern South Australia, 846 kilometres north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway.

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 /

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

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 offers the only petrol station between Marree, Coober Pedy and Oodnadatta on the Oodnadatta Track and has a campground, two motels and one of the world's most remote pubs.

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

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 ).

It can be reached by an unsealed road from Coober Pedy or via the unsealed Oodnadatta Track from Marree to Marla or from the north via Finke, Northern Territory (" Old Ghan Heritage Trail ").

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

* Coober Pedy Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run

The Coober Pedy Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run delivers mail twice a week and can bring a small amount of freight.

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

While on the long journey through remote lands bordering the Simpson Desert, they meet a variety of characters, including a group of friendly Australian Aborigines for whom they perform, and the less accepting attitudes of rural Australia in such towns as Coober Pedy, and are subjected to homophobic abuse and even violence, including having their tour bus vandalised with the words " AIDS fuckers go home.

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

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

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

One downside of the building of the new line ( and resulting closure of the old ) was that Oodnadatta and other communities along the route of the original line lost their railway service.

The Oodnadatta Track, Australia is an unsealed 620 kilometre outback road between Marree and Marla via Oodnadatta in South Australia.

Along the way, the track passes the southern lake of the Lake Eyre National Park, and the outback settlements of William Creek and Oodnadatta.