Coober Pedy in South Australia has a treeless, desolate landscape marked with piles of dirt where opals have been mined. People live in dwellings carved out of the sandstone to escape from the heat and exposed landscape. Worth a visit! Interesting tour at Umoona museum to learn how opals are mined and the atmospheric Serbian Orthodox Church dug out of rock.
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Flat, desolate, hot Coober Pedy
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Little piles of dirt resulting from the opal mines
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Umoona museum shop
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Small amount of opal left in the rock
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Umoona Museum
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Umoona museum shop
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Umoona Museum
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Umoona Museum
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Umoona Musuem – example of hand dug room
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Umoona Museum
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Serbian Orthodox Church
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Serbian Orthodox Church, Coober Pedy