The name of what outback town is thought by many to be an anglicisation of an aboriginal word meaning “white man in a hole”.
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Coober Pedy
That’s what it is. Like many places, there are competing origin stories, but we like this one. It makes for a good trivia question.
It would probably be either Tibooburra or Milparinka and since I believe Tibooburra is reputed to refer to a pile of rocks, it is probably Milparinka. My father used to fly to Broken Hill, then drive to Tibooburra for work back in the 1960s