Coober Pedy's highest point - 360° town views, a café and the famous Big Winch sculpture.
The best place to get your bearings - panoramic views over the dugouts, mullock heaps and the surrounding moonscape, especially at sunset. There’s a café and “360°” experience on site.
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Coober Pedy's main cemetery - a moving, very Coober Pedy place where miners of dozens of nationalities lie, including the famous beer-can headstone.
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The social heart of Coober Pedy's large Croatian mining community - the Croatian Welfare & Sports Club, part of what makes this such a multicultural town.
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The town's original burial ground, used from the early 1920s - the resting place of some of the very first people to live and die on the opal fields.
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