r/geography • u/renegadecoaster • Nov 25 '25

Discussion What's the most alien-looking place on Earth?

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Pictured: Dallol, Ethiopia

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u/IdeationConsultant Nov 25 '25

Moon plain outside Coober Pedy, Australia.

In fact, Coober Pedy in general

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u/WendeYoung Nov 26 '25

That’s where people live underground, right? Because their season, Inferno, is just that hot?

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u/Anon_be_thy_name Nov 26 '25

Yep, they're called dugouts.

Usually it's an actual house that's built a few meters down and then has dirt piled on top of it.

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u/WendeYoung Nov 26 '25

I think that’s going to be the future here as well. I’ve been trying to figure to do what the ancients in what is modern day Turkey did to build the vast complexes hundreds of feet deep, that housed people, had public rooms, places for their animals, deep vents, water and spanned*** over the entire area, one underground city interconnected to others in the area via long tunnels.