District Council of Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy, known nationally and internationally as the “Opal Capital of the World” has a population of approximately 2,000 people. It is located in the far north of the state, 850 km north of Adelaide and 680 km south of Alice Springs on the Stuart Highway.

For thousands of years nomadic Aboriginal people walked through this desert area as hunters and gatherers, the availability of water determining their presence.