In a land as rich with eccentricities as the Australian Outback, Coober Pedy manages to stand out. A small town in South Australia plopped down in a nearly uninhabitable desert, it is dry and sterile, grassless and unpretty.   Read more <a"https://www.gonomad.com/2989-australias-coober-pedy-gemstone-desert" >

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