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The underground houses of Coober Pedy
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1e73bc89-604b-4187-b93a-dc55755cbbe9/66A6EB96-AB43-478E-9952-2851D9134DC3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html" href="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html" style="font-size: 11px;">35mm.instantfundas.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html">The underground houses of Coober Pedy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><H2 class="entry-title"> <A title="The underground houses of Coober Pedy" rel="bookmark" href="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html" linkindex="4">The underground houses of Coober Pedy</A> </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><P>Coober Pedy is a town located in northern South Australia and is known as the opal capital of the world, as nearly 95 percent of the world's opal supply comes from the local mines. This small town with a population of around 3000 has a unique way of life – nearly half of them live underground.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/35mm.instantfundas.com/img/977C844C-99ED-4617-93E0-BDB972815A8C" alt="coober-pedy2-2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><P>Back in 1916 when people moved into Coober Pedy to mine opal, the harsh summer temperature drove them into caves dug into the hillsides. When temperatures outside raged over 40 degree centigrade, underground temperatures remained comfortable and nearly constant year-round. Even today, the town folk prefer to build their homes in underground caves. In fact, many of these homes are abandoned mine shafts dug to search opal.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><P>Coober Pedy has around 250,000 mine shafts and signs like this are common. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/35mm.instantfundas.com/img/045178BA-68E6-4CED-B555-BCB97B72DFFA" alt="coober-pedy" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html">There is a local golf course - mostly played at night with glowing balls, to avoid daytime temperatures. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/35mm.instantfundas.com/img/B4846B20-FB28-469E-BD3D-BE60C2434A99" alt="coober-pedy2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/35mm.instantfundas.com/img/72BCE7AC-0390-4C6F-89B1-FA22CC0386BC" alt="coober-pedy (3)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/35mm.instantfundas.com/img/5C13184D-253E-4A6D-8935-901EFCA217E7" alt="coober-pedy (4)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/35mm.instantfundas.com/img/C6D8F47F-8F18-41A3-ACAF-3FF2F2CCA343" alt="coober-pedy (5)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://35mm.instantfundas.com/2008/11/underground-houses-of-coober-pedy.html"><P>And even underground hotels</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; 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