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, ...

Most of the time, when people refer to a place as "being underground", they're speaking figuratively. That isn't the case in ...

Current time and date at Coober Pedy Airport is 01:52:35 AM (ACDT) on Monday, Nov 3, 2025 Looking for information on Coober Pedy Airport, Coober Pedy, Australia? Know about Coober Pedy Airport in ...

In Coober Pedy, located on the Stuart Highway in Southern Australia, almost all of the 2,000 residents live underground. Thanks to extremely hot temperatures that typically go over 104 degrees ...

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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 ...

The remote town of Coober Pedy, which relies on large amounts of cash for its opal mining and tourism industry, is set to lose its only bank next year. Coober Pedy will lose its only bank when Westpac ...

Known internationally as the Opal Capital of the World, Coober Pedy has a reputation for selling valuable examples of the precious gemstone. Coober Pedy locals pay three times more for water than the ...

Head inland to outback South Australia’s ‘painted heart’ for one of the best bush trips of your life. Tales of grand outback adventure often fail to mention the flies. The flies and the heat. Yet they ...