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COOBER PEDY
is the most enduring symbol of the harshness of Australia's Outback and the determination of those who live there. It's a place where the terrain and temperatures are so extreme that homes - and even churches - have been built underground, yet which has managed to attract thousands of opal prospectors. In a virtually waterless desert 380km from Woomera and considerably further from anywhere else, the most remarkable thing about the town - whose name stems from an Aboriginal phrase meaning "white man's burrow" - is that it exists at all.
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