Tuesday 29 September 2020

TRAVEL TUESDAY 255 - COOBER PEDY, AUSTRALIA

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“To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!” - Gertrude Bell

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Coober Pedy is a town in northern South Australia, 846 km north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. According to the 2011 census, its population was 1,695 (953 males, 742 females, including 275 indigenous Australians). The town is sometimes referred to as the “opal capital of the world” because of the quantity of precious opals that are mined there. 
Coober Pedy is renowned for its below-ground residences, called “dugouts”, which are built in this fashion due to the scorching daytime heat. The name “Coober Pedy" comes from the local Aboriginal term kupa-piti, which means “boys’ waterhole". Opal was found in Coober Pedy on 1 February 1915; since then the town has been supplying most of the world's gem-quality opal. 
Coober Pedy today relies as much on tourism as the opal mining industry to provide the community with employment and sustainability. Coober Pedy has over seventy opal fields and is the largest opal mining area in the world. 
 
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6 comments:

  1. I enjoy the desert except in summer when the temperatures are so high. This looks a lot like the Arizona desert. _ Margy

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  2. Not sure I want to die there tho...;)

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    1. Me too Lydia. Even though the opals are beautiful.

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  3. I have never been there. Looks like an interesting place to go. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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  4. OMG this was one of my favourite places. But my husband HATED staying in the hotel there. He got so claustrophobic he got up in the middle of the night and went for a walk. I had to get our room moved above ground for the next night.

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