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There’s a whole town in Australia that lives underground

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(GERMANY OUT) South Australia - full moon over Australian outback landscape near Coober Pedy (Photo by Mayall/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Coober Pedy, the underground town has featured in several films including The landscape Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert (Picture: Mayall/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

They don’t call it Down Under for nothing.

Welcome to Coober Pedy, a bustling Australian town 846 km north of Adelaide, where everyone lives underground.

On the surface, the place looks pretty deserted. With just a few hotels and, randomly, a golf course dotted around, the place has the air of an abandoned town.

In fact, around 3,500 people live there. It’s just that most of them (60 per cent) live below the surface – in… Read the full story


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