The Big Merino is located in Goulburn NSW, Australia. The 15 metre tall cement Merino Sheep contains a gift shop on the ground floor, a wool display on the second and if you climb all the way to the top you can look out the Merinos eyes to view the local suburb. Goulburn (New South Wales, Australia) is a quiet provincial city characterised by a particularly long main street. ...
Giant Pineapple, Nambour, Queensland The Big Things of Australia are a loosely related set of large structures or sculptures representing much smaller objects which pertain to the area in which they are located. ...
The first Big Thing, the Big Banana, was built in 1963 by John Landi, an American immigrant who was so in love with his banana plantation that he wanted everyone to stop and visit his own piece of paradise.
For example, the Big Cow, also at Nambour, was built in 1975 by a local farmer to encourage tourists to stop at his Suncoast Dairy and see the cows being milked, as well as butter and cheese-making displays.
Less successful have been the Big Things attached to roadside diners and petrol stations, such as the Big Prawn at Ballina, the Big Oyster at Taree and the BigMerino in Goulburn, which were all built by the Mokany brothers in the '80s as part of their petrol station empire.
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