A List of 's big Things

Drawn from the Wikipedia article Australia's Big Things

Australian Capital Victoria Territory

Western Australia

Northern Territory Australian Capital Territory Name Location Notes Located in the Fresh Food Giant Markets, the Giant Mushroom shelters a Mushroom Belconnen children's playground. It was officially launched in 1998 by the ACT Chief Minister. Located at the main entrance to Giant Belconnen town centre, the statue cost Belconnen $400,000 and was built by Melbourne sculptor Bruce Armstrong.[3] New South Wales Name Location Notes A bull ant sculpture designed by artist Pro Hart, which was erected in 1980 and originally stood at the Stephens Creek Hotel. It was moved to its current location, Big Ant Broken Hill next to the Tourist Information Centre in Broken Hill, after being donated to the city in 1990.

Located in the middle of an orchard about 3km north of Batlow, without public Big Apple Batlow access. Only its top is visible from Batlow- Tumut Road, as it is largely blocked by apple trees.

Big Apple Yerrinbool Visible from the Hume Highway

Big Avocado Duranbah Located at Tropical Fruit World.

Located alongside the Kew Visitor Information Centre. The original sculpture The Big Axe Kew was replaced in 2002 as a result of ant induced damage. This 1/40 scale model of Uluru was formerly an attraction at Leyland Brothers World, and now forms the roof of the Rock Restaurant. Technically not a "Big Big Ayers North Arm Cove Thing" (as it is substantially smaller than Rock the item it is modelled on), the Rock Restaurant is loosely grouped with the big things as an object of roadside art.

Sometimes claimed to be the first Big Thing in Australia. The tourist Big Banana complex includes a banana-themed souvenir shop, tours of the surrounding plantation and an indoor ski slope.

The Big Beer Can has a Tooheys New The Big Beer design, and is located above the entrance Can Cobar to the Grand Hotel.

As part of the Landscapes and Backgrounds exhibition, a 2.5 times scale park bench was constructed on the top of Big Bench Broken Hill the Line of Lode, which is a high hill of mine deposits in the centre of the city of Broken Hill.

The Big Blue Located adjacent to the town information Heeler Muswellbrook centre.

The Big The Big Bogan is the brainchild of Bogan Nyngan Reverend Graham McLeod from Nyngan's St Mark's Anglican Church. Mangrove Big Bottles Mountain and Hanwood A 10-foot high replica of a lawn bowl, Lake Cathie, consisting of one-and-a-half tonnes of Big Bowl New South steel and concrete. Wales

Formerly located in Sawtell, the Big Bunch of Bananas was relocated when Big Bunch of the Pacific Highway bypassed the town Coffs Harbour Bananas and now lie just to the south of Coffs Harbour. The bicycle built by Jonh Ridley, Andy The Big Lugiz and Phillip Becker adorns the Bicycle Chullora entrance to the Chullora Waste Transfer Station, Chullora.

The Big Cheese is located at the former Bodalla cheese factory on the Princes Big Cheese Bodalla Hwy, Bodalla. It is as of 2013 closed.

Originally located off Short Street, but Big Cherries Young moved with the tourist information centre to Lovell Street to the old railway station.

Big Chook Moonbi 2 m × 4 m (6.6 ft × 13.1 ft)

Big Chook Mount Vernon 4 m × 4 m (13 ft × 13 ft) Big Flower Ourimbah The Big Funnel Web Spider was built at Jamberoo Action Park located 20 minutes south of Wollongong and is a steel, Big Funnel Jamberoo, New fibreglass and concrete structure 420 Web Spider South Wales times larger than a female funnel- web spider. It was awarded a Guinness World Record as the Largest Spider Sculpture in August 2015.

The Big Gold Located in front of the Gold Panner Motor Panner Bathurst Inn.

Located between the Goods Shed and The Big Gold Grenfell historic Station Building at the old Railway Pick and Pan Station precinct, just off the northern end

of West Street.

The Big Modelled on the Golden Guitar trophies Golden given to winners at the Country Music Tamworth Guitar Awards of Australia ceremony night during the Tamworth Country Music Festival. The Big At the entrance to the Castle, Knockrow Knight a nut-themed park and store.

Located at Fairview Artspace in Mudgee The Big is a Tig Crawley's artwork "Water Mudgee Hammer Hammer".

The Big Located on Darby St, this fully operational Headphones Newcastle pair of headphones was designed by Mark Tisdell. The Big Sculpture by Chris Fussell. It is located in Kookaburra Kurri Kurri Rotary Park.

Erected by the town and district to promote the lamb and potato industries in The Big Lamb Guyra New England. The lamb is stood over a potato plant.

A sculpture of a merino ram, built in 1985. Goulburn and The Big Merino were bypassed by the Hume Highway in 1992, The Big leading to a reduction in visitor numbers. Merino Goulburn On 26 May 2007, Rambo (as the Merino is locally known) was relocated by low- loader to a new home within sight of the highway.

The Big Lithgow Miner's Lamp

"Ossie the Mossie" at the Hexham Bowls Club is modelled on the local Big Mosquito Hexham Ochlerotatus alternans mosquito species, known as "Hexham Greys". It includes illuminated eyes which switch on at night.

Big Murray Located near the corner of Delinquin Rd Cod Tocumwal and Murray St, near the Murray River.

Big Orange Tenterfield The Big Oyster 12 m × 4 m (39 ft × 13 ft) The Big Playable Guitar Narrandera The largest playable guitar in the world. 6 m × 2 m (19.7 ft × 6.6 ft) Situated in Reptile Park, and commissioned by the Park's founder, Ploddy the Eric Worrell. The concrete structure, Somersby Dinosaur based on the shape of a Diplodocus, is 30 metres long and weighs almost 100 tonnes. The Big Potato A giant potato constructed by farmer Jim Robertson 10 m × 4 m Mauger in 1977. (33 ft × 13 ft) The Big Poo was built by local residents The Big Poo as a protest against Sydney Water's 1 m × 5 m Kiama decision not to reuse waste water in the (3.3 ft area. Built from foam, it was unveiled by × 16.4 ft) Ian Cohen on 29 April 2002. On 24 September 2009, Ballina Shire Council voted to allow the demolition of the Big Prawn, but this permission was never acted upon. Bunnings Warehouse The Big purchased the site, and the Prawn, in Prawn Ballina August 2011, and stated their intention to retain and refurbish the Prawn as part of the redevelopment. The prawn now sits on a stand next to the entrance of the Bunnings Warehouse carpark.

A Big Rabbit Trap, located on the roof of Big Rabbit Albert the Rabbit Trap Hotel. Trap The Big Moree The Big Rocket, launched during the Rocket International Year of Astronomy and the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, contains two slides and a space-themed command centre playground.

A cement cube painted as per a Rubik's Big Rubik's Cube on top of a storm water drain on Maroubra Cube Maroubra Beach. The Big Uralla In front of Hassett's Military Museum. Soldier

The Big Spider (named "Not so Itsy" by the artist) was created by Andrew Whitehead, a nearby resident of the town. The spider commemorates the local The Big Urana football club, who were, for many years, Spider known as the Spiders, and is built from a range of materials – including a wash tub and a hot dog muffler.

A 25-foot high sundial presented as a gift from Lemington Mine, to honour the The World's occasion of the Australian Bicentenary. At Biggest Singleton the time of its creation, it was recognised Sundial by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest sundial.

Big Tennis Built in honour of Evonne Goolagong, Barellan Racquet who grew up in Barellan.

Designed by Andy Lomnici, the Big Trout is located in the town of Adaminaby, near The Big Trout Adaminaby Lake Eucumbene in the Snowy Mountains. Opened in 1973, the trout is built from fiberglass over a steel frame.

The Big Trout Oberon

The Big Forster Carved from timber, the big turtle is Turtle located behind the main street of Forster on a riverside boardwalk.

Mortels Sheepskin Factory is home to The Big Ugg Boots. These big ugg boots are The Big Ugg Thornton 13 times the size of a women's US size 8 Boots ugg boot, in the Hunter Region of NSW. Although work started on the Big Windmill in 1972, the death of Franz De Kever in 1974 delayed completion until 1982, as it was not until the site was purchased by The Big Coffs Harbour Hans Eecen that work was able to Windmill resume. The Big Windmill has since changed hands, and is now operated by Mark and Jodi Taylor. The site includes a 41-room motel and a restaurant.

Located at the Hunter Valley Gardens. The Big Wine Pokolbin The neck forms a chimney for an open Bottle fire contained within.

Victoria Name Location Notes Image A fibre glass replica of an abalone that used to sit atop a 5.3 m tower at the Plummer Road premises of the Australian Big Abalone Exports office. Once it was Laverton North Abalone illuminated, and rotated slowly. It was removed after the business ceased operating.

The Apple was removed from display at the road side when the adjacent fruit Big Apple Bacchus Marsh shop closed down. It now sits behind a fence next to a dumpster.

10.36 m × 3.35 m × 5.49 m (34.0 ft Big Lizzie Red Cliffs × 11.0 ft × 18.0 ft)

The fiberglass Big Apple hangs from a pole outside the Gladysdale Primary School which is the home of the annual Gladysdale Apple and Wine Festival. After sustaining damage from vandals The Big Gladysdale some time ago it has been restored to its Apple former glory by a local builder and aircraft engineer. Organisers of the festival are planning to unveil the restored apple at the 2014 event on 4 May 2014. Replica of Sir Winston Churchill's cigar, Big Cigar Churchill after whom the town is named.

Located outside Georges Gourmet Big Coffee Coffee, 340 Victoria Street, Brunswick, Brunswick Maker Melbourne. 3 m × 1 m (9.8 ft × 3.3 ft)

The Big Cows are located outside the Big Cows Newhaven Phillip Island Chocolate Factory.

Big Dead Fish Creek Positioned on the roof of the Fishy Pub. Fish

Fairfield Industrial Created in 2000 and positioned next to Dog Object Fairfield Fairfield Railway Station. (FIDO)

The Big The Big Flower sits atop a florist on Yarra Junction Flower Warburton Highway, Yarra Junction

The Big The Big Golf Ball is found at the Spring Clayton South Golf Ball Valley Golf Course in Clayton South. Adjacent to the Midland Highway outside Big Hens Meredith a battery egg farm.

The Big can be found next to Rusty Big Koala Cowes Water Brewery and Restaurant on Phillip Island Road.

The Giant Koala is 27 km (17 mi) north- west of Stawell in the small township of Dadswells Bridge. The Koala is 14 m (46 ft) high, and weighs 12 tonnes (12 The Giant long tons; 13 short tons). It is made of Dadswells Bridge Koala bronze set on a steel frame. The sculptor is Mr Ben Van Zetton who was hired in 1988 to design and construct the piece. 14 m × 8 m (46 ft × 26 ft)

The Big Blue-Tongued Lizard takes pride Big Lizard Marysville of place in Gallipoli Park, Marysville

Big Mallee Birchip Bull

The Big Mallee Root is an actual mallee root rather than an oversized replica like Big Mallee Ouyen most of Australia's big things. It is on Root display in a park.

Big Miner Ballarat Located at Gold Rush Golf on the Western Highway (M8) on the eastern side of Ballarat with the Big Ned Kelly.

“The Big Miner stands as a tribute to the tens of thousands of gold prospectors who frequented regional Victoria during the second half of the nineteenth century. The statue stands 8 meters tall (6 meters of statue on a 2 metre base). It has been hand sculptured from polystyrene and has a 1.5 ton steel frame. The 2 metre high concrete base is approximately 15 tons. It was designed by Wayne Johnston of 3D Theme Located at Gold Rush Golf on the Big Ned Ballarat Western Highway (M8) on the eastern Kelly side of Ballarat with the Big Miner.

Giant Located at the train station. Swan Hill Murray Cod 3 m × 9 m (9.8 ft × 29.5 ft)

The Big A tribute to the bushranger Ned Kelly. Glenrowan Ned Kelly

The Big Pheasant sits at the entrance to Gumbuya Park. It was the victim of an The Big attack by vandals in October 2011,[105] Tynong Pheasant and was restored to its previous condition by April 2012.

The world's largest The Big Rolling Pin sits atop a bakery Wodonga rolling pin and spins.

No longer painted as the 'Big Smoke' due to closure of cigarette factory, located on Big Smoke Myrtleford Myrtleford–Yackandandah Road

Located at the Big Strawberry store on Big Koonoomoo the corner of Goulburn Valley Hwy and Strawberry Cobram-Koonoomoo Rd.

The Big Tap suspended in the air above A Big Tap Cowes Maze'N Things on Phillip Island Road.

Big Situated outside a fruit and vegetable Watermelo Wantirna South store on High Street Road n The Big Wave is a popular photo point, where you can ride the wave. Located at Big Wave Newhaven the Island Surf Experience, Phillip Island Road, Newhaven.

A water tower in the shape and colour of Big Wine Rutherglen a wine bottle. Located on the corner of Bottle Campbell St and Hopetoun Rd.

Big Wool Hamilton Bales

Located on the Bass Highway, the Big The Giant Bass Worm contains interactive displays and Worm one can walk inside.

Public Located at the North-West end of the Melbourne Purse Bourke Street Mall outside the GPO.

Giant Pocket Melbourne Watch

Queensland Name Location Notes Image From the "Landmark Legends of Stanthorpe", "The original Big Apple, a Granny Smith, lived at the petrol station at Applethorpe from 1978. The steel and fibreglass sculpture stands 4m tall and the apple is 4.5m in diameter. It was crafted by local artisan Johnny Ross. It went into temporary retirement The Big in 2003 when the Applethorpe site was Thulimbah Apple redeveloped. After a brief facelift, the re-grafted apple emerged as a Royal Gala apple slightly north of town at Thulimbah. Its new home is Vincenzo’s at the Big Apple, which is situated on the opposite side of the new England Highway to Suttons Apple Orchard & Cidery."

Big Apple Acacia Ridge Located at 1102 Beaudesert Road. Big North Mackay Banana The Barrel is an interpretive visitors' centre, gift and bottle shop for Bundaberg Brewed Drinks, located at 147 Bargara Road. According to a Big Barrel Bundaberg commemorative plaque inside the Barrel, it was opened by the Hon. Mr. Mark Vaile MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Nationals on Friday, 18 November 2005.

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Big Bolt Located in front of Banks Bolts and and Nut Roma Fastners at 177–183 Raglan Street.

A large shoe mounted on the roof of a car sales yard on the corner of Rode and Roads (621 Gympie Road). The boot originally came from a boot and footwear factory on the corner The Big of Hale and Caxton Streets in Boot / Chermside Paddington, operated by the Morris Shoe family in 1960. In 1976, the factory became a restaurant called the Spaghetti Emporium, and the boot remained on the roof there until it was brought to its current location in the late 1970s as a marker for Boots Camping. The Big Townsville Brolga There were initially six bulls at many of the entrances into the city. Five of the Big Bulls Rockhampton bulls were created by sculptor Hugh Anderson.

The Big Sarina “Buffy”, short for the cane toad’s Cane Toad scientific name ‘Bufo Marinus’, is located in Broad Street, Sarina. Built out of Paper Mache in 1983, for a float in the Apex Sugar Festival Parade, the Sarina council eventually cast the Big Toad in fiberglass to become a permanent fixture in the town’s centre.

The Big Captain Modelled on the explorer Captain Cook. Cook

The Big Mission Beach Built by Darryl Lourigan. Cassowary

The Big In front of the Mossman Hotel and Mossman Cockatoo Holiday Villas.

The Big Yandina Cow

Built by Terry Tebble, senior preparator at the museum. Located at Muddies Restaurant in Cardwell North. Big (Mud) Cardwell The original mold is kept at Crab NatureWorks, a company near Samford, QLD.

Big Crab Miriam Vale Located at the Shell petrol station and roadhouse on the corner of Dougall Street and Roe Street (). Created by proprietor Lex Milner, who owned the service station at the time and wanted to promote his tasty mud crab sandwiches. Big Daintree Crocodile Big Hartley's Creek Also known as 'Big Ted', this Big Thing Crocodile is at Hartley's Creek Adventures, a crocodile farm with over 3000 crocs. Big Ted is a life-sized replica of one shot by Krys Pawlowski near Karumba in 1957.

An accurate artist's impression of the largest recorded saltwater crocodile Big ever killed. "Krys the Savannah King" Normanton Crocodile was shot in 1957 by Krystina Pawlowski on the banks of the Norman River.

Located at the Royal Theatre, an open air picture show, on Elderslie Street. The chair was donated in April 2005 by Big Deck Winton the Free Masons Taskforce Victoria. Chair Claimed to be the World's largest, but claim has not been verified.

Also known as 'The Big Triceratops' or 'Fruitisforus', this large fibreglass triceratops was originally used as a float in the 1998 Apple & Grape Festival. After the festival, residents placed it on The Big the roadside to help sell fruit for a local Ballandean Dinosaur fundraiser, and it became a popular landmark. The triceratops was refurbished in 2009 to repair weather damage and then returned to its original post in front of the Ballandean railway station. The Big Located at the Rockhampton Rockhampton Dugong Dreamtime Cultural Centre.

The Big Easel, located off Capricorn The Big Highway in Morton Park, holds a 7 m Emerald Easel × 10 m (23 ft × 33 ft) reproduction of one of Van Gogh's Sunflower paintings.

Big Golf Broadbeach Ball The Big Golden Tully Gumboot

A 155 mm (6.1 in) field gun mounted on top of a two-story fruit shop. The gun The Big Underwood was in a metal scrap yard that occupied Gun the site in the 1960s before the shops and offices were built in the 70s.

The iconic large guitar that fronts every The Big Hard Rock Cafe. The Surfers Paradise Hard Rock Surfers Paradise location was established 22 March Guitar 1996.

Six years after the opened the owners built the Big Macadamia nut. Once part of the "Nut The Big Country Tour", the building was Macadamia eventually converted to the "Rainforest Nut Creatures of the Night" display in 2000. The building has since closed, and remains unused as of June 2013.

The Big Mundubbera Mandarin

The Big Mango stands at the tourist information centre in Bowen. In The Big Bowen February 2014, the Mango was Mango temporarily "stolen" by restaurant chain Nando's as a publicity stunt.

The Big Cairns Marlin

A giant meat ant sculpture Big Meat commissioned by Murweh Shire Augathella Ant Council, in the hope of attracting "thousands of tourists". Big Merino Blackall

In front of the Bobby Dazzler mine. The Big Missing its left hand in May 2012. Hand Rubyvale Miner repaired and statue repainted prior to December 2012.

The Big Beerwah Mower

The Big Ned Kelly stands in front of the The Big Maryborough Ned Kelly Motel and service station. Ned Kelly Built by Dat Romano.

The Big Gayndah Orange

The Big Corner of Lake Clarendon Way and Lockyer Valley Orange Crowley Vale Road.

The Big West End, This was a public sculpture that once Paperclip stood on the lot next to Paul's dairy factory on Montague Road. The area is now part of the ramp onto the Go Between bridge, and the fate of the sculpture is unknown. Last photo located on the internet was dated 2007.

The Big Tolga Peanut The Big Mounted on a motorised float in Noosaville Pelican parkland next to the Noosa River.

The Big Located in front of the Blue Gem Store Pick, Sapphire Van Park. Built by Barry Richardson Shovel and and David Gould. Sieve

Mounted atop a 10 m (33 ft) pole next The Big Pie Yatala to the car park of the Yatala Pies drive- through pie shop. Formerly located next to a service station on the Bruce Highway, the Big Gympie Big Pineapple was demolished Gympie Pineapple in 2008 during redevelopment of the site.

The Big Pineapple is a tourist attraction on the Sunshine Coast in , Australia. It is 16 metres high and is claimed to be the world's largest pineapple, gaining this title after The Big a large pineapple-shaped water tower Woombye Pineapple in Hawaii was dismantled in 1993 (see List of World's Largest Roadside Attractions). The pineapple was originally opened on 15 August 1971, and is situated on a 165-hectare site in Woombye.

The Big Beaudesert Pumpkin

The Big Located at 4138 Warrego Highway in Red Lockyer Valley Hatton Vale. Part of the "Jumbo" Elephant shopping centre.

The Big Eight Mile Plains, Redback Brisbane A tourist attraction which The Big Roma commemorates the finding of oil in Rig Roma.

The bottle started out as the Bundaberg Rum Company's pavilion at World Expo in Brisbane, and is now located outside the visitors' centre at the Bundaberg The Big Bundaberg Distillery. Since then there have been Rum Bottle several copies of the bottle which are found in various locations throughout Queensland, one being outside of the Sundowner Saloon in Haigslea.

Located in front of the Big Sapphire and The Big Gemfield Information Centre at 1 Anakie Sapphire Anakie Road, which was closed as of May 2012.

The Big Located in front of Pat's Gems. Built by Sapphire Sapphire Victor Saunders. Ring

The Big Sausage King sits on the roof of Gray’s Modern Meat Mart in Centenary Heights. In 2010 it was stolen, and in spite of 10 kg (22 lb) The Big Centenary Heights, sausage reward from the store and an Sausage Toowoomba additional $500 being offered by radio King station Triple M, it was eleven months before it was discovered in a local quarry.

The Big Shell is the entrance to a The Big Hawaiian / tropical lifestyle store, full of Shell little treasures and shells. The Shell is now under the third owner.

The first big thing in the area of The Big Sapphire Rubyvale and Sapphire, and was built Spanner by Allen May. Outside Rolin Farms, a strawberry and The Big Elimbah orchid farm near Caboolture. Strawberry No longer there. Queensland's first big The Big Tewantin thing, built by George Clifford out of Stubby 17,000 empty stubby bottles. The Big Kinka Beach Built by Kevin Logan. Whale

Western Australia Name Location Notes Image Big Apple Donnybrook Carnarvon Big Banana

World's Kalgoorlie Located on Hannan Street Tallest Bin A working water barometer being the largest barometer in the world, recognised by the Guinness Book of Records. Built in the Netherlands by Bert Bolle and donated to the Bert Bolle community of Denmark in 2007. The Denmark Barometer barometer is considered a monument and carries the name ’The Bert Bolle Barometer’. It is set up in The Barometer Tower in the Denmark Visitor Centre.

Carved out of rammed earth by Yagan memorial artist Roman Antoniuk, and Big Bobtail Kalamunda, Perth modelled on a 300 mm (11.8 in) blue- tongued skink that lives on the block.

A building housing a museum of The Big Meckering photography and a huge collection of Camera cameras

Cow on the Brunswick Corner Junction

The Big Wyndham Crocodile

The Big Dongara Lobster Known as "Rex of the River", based on The Big Between Denmark the local species of freshwater crayfish, Marron and Walpole the Cherax tenuimanus.

Situated in the gardens of the Old The Big Balingup Cheese Factory, Nannup Road, Mushroom Balingup.

Big Orange Harvey The Big Situated outside the MG Kailis dock, Learmonth Prawn 20 km south of Exmouth.

The Giant Wagin Ram

Leeuwin Way Situated in the carpark of the Eucla Eucla Whale roadhouse, Eyre Highway.

Situated at the entrance to the The Big Port Hedland Wedgefield Industrial Area between Wheelbarrow Port Hedland and South Hedland.

South Australia Name Location Notes Image Taking 17 years to develop from the initial proposal to the final unveiling, the The Australian Farmer, located in the town of Australian Wudinna in South Australia, was carved Farmer by artist Marijan Bekic and his son David (also Wudinna between 2007 and 2009. Representing the known as early settlers of the region, the work the Big stands at 8 m (26 ft) in height, and was Farmer) carved out of approximately 70 tonnes of local granite.

The Big Situated at The Poochera Roadhouse on Poochera Ant Highway 1, South Australia. The Big Kingscote Bee

The Big Bob-tail Port Lincoln Outside the Aboriginal Arts Centre Lizard

The Big Located at Fleurieu Cherries on Pages Pages Flat Cherries Flat Road (B34) in Pages Flat, SA

The Big Church Block Bottle, named Our Work of Art, is a 10 m (33 ft) high replica bottle of Wirra Wirra, Church Block wine. The bottle was constructed to launch the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in March 2010, located at Southbank in Melbourne, Victoria. The bottle was located in Melbourne from 14 March 2010 The Big through to 19 March 2010 before it was re- Church McLaren Vale, located to the Wirra Wirra vineyard in Block South Australia McLaren Vale, South Australia, during Bottle April 2010. The bottle was designed in five sectional pieces, made from steel framework covered in wire mesh. The mesh has been cladded entirely by recycled corks. Each cork was individually drilled and threaded onto elastic before being cable tied around each section of the bottle.

The Big Dice consist of six concrete blocks piled into a small pyramid. They The Big Barrier Highway can be found between Yunta and Dice Mannahill, just off the Barrier Highway.

The Big Kimba Residing at the "Halfway Across Australia Galah Tourist Shop" at Kimba, South Australia, the Big Galah was built from fiberglass over a steel frame by Robert Venning, and was opened in 1993. Modelled on the Galahs that frequent the region, it stands at 8 metres (26 ft) high and 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) wide, and weighs in the vicinity of 2.3 tonnes (2 long tons; 3 short tons). Also known as "Rooey II", the Big Kangaroo can be found at Border Village in South Australia, located just shy of the border with West Australia. Made from The Big papier-mâché and fiberglass over a steel Border Village Kangaroo frame, from a design by Bill Metheral, Rooey was intended to capitalise on traffic journeying to Perth for the America's Cup, and was opened in 1986.

Known locally as "Larry", the Big Lobster was designed and built by Paul Kelly (who also designed the Big Scotsman) as a means of attracting attention to the visitor centre and restaurant at which it is The Big located. It was built in six months out of a Kingston SE Lobster steel frame with a fiberglass shell. The size is said to have been an error: the original plans were drawn in feet, but the designer misinterpreted them to be metres.

Named Map Kernow, the "son of Cornwall", Map the Miner represents the Cornish miners who once worked at the town of Kapunda. Standing at the Map the Kapunda southern end of the town, the work was Miner built by Ben van Zetten and opened on 5 June 1988. The statue was destroyed by a fire in 2006, but has since been rebuilt.

The Big Olive was constructed to attract tourists to The Big Olive processing plant and visitors' center. Located just outside of Tailem Bend, it consists of two olives – The Big one green and one black – which together Tailem Bend Olive stand at 8 metres (26 ft) and weigh over 1 t (2,200 lb). The olives were constructed out of fiberglass by The Newell Group, and were placed on the site in April 2005.

Located in the South Australian Riverland, the Big Orange was designed by - based architect John Twopenny. It is constructed with fiberglass panels The Big Berri covering a steel frame, with the entire Orange structure weighing in the vicinity of 85 tonnes (84 long tons; 94 short tons). now closed but can still get photos from the road* As with the Big Pelican, the Big Oyster was originally built as a float for a local festival – in this case, Ceduna's annual Oysterfest. Built by Leon Veerhuis out of The Big Ceduna ferro-concrete, it was retired from parade Oyster duties in 1994. It is located next to an information on Eyre Highway just north of Ceduna.

The Big Pelican was originally constructed as a float for a local Mardi Gras in 1979. After being employed for this purpose on a The Big number of occasions, including once in Loxton Pelican Adelaide, the papier-mâché structure was remodelled, and, in 1992, it was overlaid with fibreglass. Today it can be found at the Loxton Caravan Park.

This Big Pelican was carved from a single tree. It includes depictions of a pelican as Another well as an Indigenous and a European Big Loxton child holding a fish together. It was created Pelican by Ants Redgum Gallery and unveiled in August 2015. It is located in Jubilee Park on the Princes Highway (B1)

The Big Ram in Karoonda recognises the importance of the sheep industry in the region. Instigated by the Karoonda Development Group and located on the The Big Karoonda Railway Lawns, the Big Ram is 2 metres Ram (6 ft 7 in) high and 3 metres (10 ft) long, and is built from concrete. It was completed in 2003.

Part of a complex that includes a wooden toy factory and a wildlife park, the Big Rocking Horse in the Adelaide Hills stands at over 18 metres tall and weighs more The Big than 25 tonnes. Designed by David Rocking Gumeracha McIntosh and John Twopenny (the latter Horse also designed The Big Orange), it took eight months to build at a cost of over $100,000. The steel structure incorporates three viewing platforms. The Big Scotsman, affectionately known as 'Scotty', was erected in 1963 and thus predated the Big Banana by a year. The Big Medindie Located at Scotty's Motel on the corner of Scotsman (Adelaide) Main North Road and Nottage Terrace in the inner-city suburb of Medindie, the Big Scotsman was designed by Paul Kelly, who later went on to build the Big Lobster. Spencer Hwy, The Big between Maitland Teddy and Minlaton, Bear South Australia The Big Winch acknowledges Coober Pedy's opal-mining industry. Built by Klaus The Big Wirries in the 1970s, the original Big Coober Pedy Winch Winch was destroyed in 1986 and rebuilt shortly thereafter.

Situated at Scotdesco Aboriginal The Big Community (Tjilkaba), on Highway 1, Bookabie Wombat South Australia.

Built in 1973 by Henry Jones, the Big Yabby resides at the Murray River town of Clayton, and originally sat outside his family's Yabby City Restaurant. While the The Big concrete yabby remains, theLink To Clayton Yabby Scotdesco Page and The Big Wombat restaurant has since changed both owners and name to become Sails at Clayton, and yabbies are no longer on the menu.As of 2015, the Yabby is no longer there.

Tasmania Name Location Notes Image

Big Apple Spreyton

The Big Adjacent to the Bass Highway at The Latrobe Cherry Cherry Shed.

The Big Constructed by the addition of a spout Deloraine Coffee Pot and handle to a grain silo. Constructed from fibro cement to mark The Big the centenary of the proclamation of Penguin Penguin the township of Penguin. Unveiled 25 October 1975.

The Big Latrobe Platypus

The Big Mounted on the roof of Hursey Rock Stanley Seafoods. Lobster

The Big University of Located in the School of Mathematics Slide Rule Tasmania (Hobart) and Physics.

The Big Sassafras Spud

The Big Standing at the entrance to the Tasmanian Mole Creek Trowunna Wildlife park and Tasmanian Devil Devil research centre.

The Big Scottsdale Scottsdale, Tasmania. Thumbs Up

Located at the front of the local cricket The Big Westbury pitch, commemorating locally born Wickets player Jack Badcock.

Northern Territory Name Location Notes Image Outside the United fuel station (formerly known as the Bush Shop) on the Arnhem Highway at Humpty Doo. The Boxing The Big Crocodile was built by Ray Park in 1988 on Boxing Humpty Doo a commission by Ray Whear who was the Crocodile owner of The Bush Shop at that time. It was created to celebrate Australia winning the America's Cup in 1983 and to assist with attracting tourism to the area. The Big Located approx. 150 km north of Alice Anmatjere Aboriginal Springs at the Aileron roadhouse/ caravan Community Hunter park.

The Big Located at Mary Rivernear the entrance to Jumping . Crocodile The Big Acacia Stockwhip

The Big Larrimah Stubbie

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