A strange city whose houses were built in the heart of the earth! (+pictures)
City Coober Pedy A strange city in Australia
Coober Pedy It is the name of a city in the north of South Australia, which is known for having the largest opal mine in the world.
The strange town of Coober Pedy
in the south of Australia, in a remote area 850 km from Adelaide; There is an underground city known as Coober Pedy.
This strange name for this Australian city is actually the name given to this region by the Australian aborigines. In the language of these natives, Kopa PT means the hole of white men.
Coober Pedy Underground City
Pictures of Coober Pedy houses
When you travel to the Coober Pedy region, you will see only a waterless and grassy desert, a treeless plain next to the stable mountains, which has a few houses and a few guesthouses, restaurants, a police station, a school and a hospital, but these are only This is half of the city. The other half of the city is hidden underground! This underground city is built in caves and tunnels called dugout, and houses, hotels, restaurants, churches, etc. have been built there.
Coober Pedy Town Church
How the houses of Coober Pedy were formed
The story of the establishment of the city of Coober Pedy is very interesting and listenable. In 1915, a 14-year-old boy who came to these deserts with his father to find gold discovered a piece of opal gemstone. This simple discovery caused hundreds of gold and precious stone seekers to travel to this area in the hope of finding wealth. But all the people who came to this place to discover precious stones soon realized that life on the surface of this desert is difficult and exhausting! The weather conditions of this area are so difficult that in the summer season, the temperature even exceeds 40 degrees Celsius on most days. Add to this extreme heat, humidity above 20% and a cloudless sky to understand the bad conditions faced by the people who came to this place to find gold.
Photo of Coober Pedy houses
Pictures of Coober Pedy houses
This excessive heat made the inhabitants react and forced them to prefer living underground to living on the ground in order to escape from this excruciating temperature! But it might be interesting to you that people went to the same pits for living as they did some time ago
They dug to find opal!
Pictures of Coober Pedy Underground Houses
Pictures of Coober Pedy houses
Cooper Pedy’s first houses were formed in the same pits, but more modern houses have been dug into the hillsides. Of course, these houses have nothing less than the houses that are on the ground level, and all of them have facilities such as bedrooms, kitchens, closets, basements, etc. The entrance of these houses is usually at the level of the street and the rooms are dug from below inside the hills.