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Coober Pedy SA

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June 18th 2023
The long four and a half drive to Coober Pedy provided a good lesson for us in outback travel, and that is to fill up with fuel at every Roadhouse opportunity. We only just made it to Coober Pedy with zero kilometres showing on our petrol gauge range. Travellers we had met along the way had described Coober Pedy as being different. It certainly was, with large mounds of white rock from the numerou ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more