Andamooka, South Australia

Andamooka is a place located about 600 km north of Adelaide in the outback of South Australia. Opal was found in this area in 1930 and it created a city of Opalsuchern. The Andamooka Opal Fields Post Office was built from 13 January 1947, renamed in 1990 in Andamooka.

Life in the village was long dominated mainly by Opalsucher. This changed as the copper - uranium mine Olympic Dam and the associated city Roxby Downs was built in the 1980s, as some of Andamooka go there to work. The Road to Andamooka was fixed in the 1990s and laid a water pipeline from Roxby Downs, Andamooka although to this day takes water from cisterns or is supplied by tanker. Not many more people live in the Erdwohnungen and houses built in the early Opalsuche, although the houses along the main street and the Erdwohnungen still exist. The residents of Adamooka now live in other buildings that were created during the construction and operation of Olympic Dam.

Others

After the location of the famous 203 -gram Andamooka Opal was named, was found there. In the 1970s, the film The Last of the Knucklemen was shot in the area of ​​Andamooka.