It's freezing cold, scorching hot and a source of Australia's opals. Here's what life's like when you have to jury-rig even the most basic tech to survive. Claire Reilly was a video host, journalist ...

Coober Pedy is a small town in the Outback of Southern Australia. Originally an opal mining town, many of Coober Pedy's residents live underground to escape the region's immense heat. Homes, dive bars ...

Most of the time, when people refer to a place as "being underground", they're speaking figuratively. That isn't the case in Coober Pedy. For residents of this outback town, the only way to escape the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Coober Pedy Fascinating opal town where most of the residents live underground Of all the opal mining towns in Australia there is none ...

Approximately 70 percent of the world's opals come from the mining town of Coober Pedy in South Australia, where half of its population lives underground. Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott/Minden ...

Coopers is hosting a golf tourney at one of the roughest courses in the world. And no, it's not the Wollongong links.

Secret rocket tests, comets tearing across the sky and explosives warnings are normally figments of the silver screen. But at Coober Pedy's drive-in they happen all around you. Under clear desert ...

Coober Pedy is known as the opal capital of the world, and for its quirky characters — both animal and human. Shoes in the outback opal-mining town of Coober Pedy are going missing Coober the rescue ...

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, ...

Coober Pedy is a small town in the Outback of Southern Australia. Many of Coober Pedy's residents live underground to escape the region's immense heat. Homes, bars, a church, and more can be found ...