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Old hand dug miner's dugout behind the lock-up, Coober Pedy [B 74337/1] • Photograph

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View of an old hand dug miner's dugout located behind the lock-up at Coober Pedy. The photographer comments on the old police lock-up, "In January 2013 I ventured into the South Australian desert to experience what it was like to live in such a hostile environment during an Australian summer. My fist stop was Coober Pedy, which is a frontier-mining town with a lot of hidden secrets. The old police lock-up was Coober Pedy's first above ground building consisting of four tin walls and a tin roof. I can't believe that anyone could have possibly existed here during the heat of summer, which regularly reaches 40 to 48 degrees. It is uncertain if the lock-up ever held criminals but it has been used as a temporary camping place, a bedroom, a morgue, and an isolation cell for a mental patient. Behind the lock-up is a dugout which at some stage was used as the residence for the local police officers.

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Physical description

1 photograph : colour

Dates / Publication details

January 2013

Photographer

Clark, Darren

Collections

Part of Darren Clark Collection
Part of Coober Pedy Collection

Subject

Housing -- South Australia -- Coober Pedy
Coober Pedy (S.A.)

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Date

15/04/2015

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6,159 x 4,100 pixels (25.3 MP)

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