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4 unusual facts about Coober Pedy


Coober Pedy

An episode of Dirty Jobs: Down Under with Mike Rowe visited Coober Pedy and aired 29 September 2012 on Discovery Channel.

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.

Underground living

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

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.


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The Breakaways Reserve

The Breakaways Reserve or just simply The Breakaways, is a large national reserve found in northern South Australia, just off the Stuart Highway near Coober Pedy.


see also

Woomera, South Australia

Easements through the WPA allows public transit on the Trans-Australian Railway, the Central Australian Railway, the Stuart Highway, and the Coober Pedy-William Creek Road.