Our Map of the Month for October is the wonderfully illustrated Australia’s Big Things Map by UBD Gregory’s.
“One of the more cherishable peculiarities of Australians is that they like to build big things in the shape of other things. Give them a bale of chicken wire, some fibreglass and a couple pots of paint and they will make you, say, an enormous pineapple or strawberry or, as here, a lobster. Then they put a café and a gift shop inside, erect a big sign beside the highway…, then sit back and wait for the money to roll in.” – Bill Bryson, ‘Down Under’, 2000, Doubleday.
Dating back to the 1960s, there are currently hundreds of these giant sculptures dotted around the Country.
