Marree Man

The Marree Man, which is also referred to as Stuart 's Giant, is a geoglyph ( geoglyph ) of 4.2 km size. It was discovered on 26 June 1998 from approximately 1000 meters from the bush pilots Trac Smith. That the genre of Land Art belonging artwork is on Finnis Springs about 60 kilometers west of the settlement Marree in central South Australia in the 200,000 square kilometer Woomera Prohibited Area large restricted area near the Lake Eyre.

Figure

The discovery of the figure near the Oodnadatta Track and the Salt Lake Lake Eyre led in Australia and abroad due to the size, mysticism and the onset of speculation about the origin of a large publicity. The figure is about 4.2 kilometers in size and scope or settlement of the lines is estimated to be 28 km, the measurements differ considerably in the publications. According to estimates, the production took about six weeks. The buried into the ground lines are 20 to 30 inches deep and 35 meters wide. They were probably with heavy equipment, a tractor made ​​.

The Marree Man is considered the greatest work of art that was made as geoglyph. About configuring the figure, there are speculations, ranging from the transfer of longitude and latitude and the calibration over photos to the aid of the Global Positioning System ( GPS). The plant is exposed to soil erosion, but as the climate in this area extremely dry and the area is uninhabited, the picture may still be recognized today. Originally one could see the figure with the naked eye from around 100 kilometers altitude. In the red earth white lime was sprinkled by the designers.

Creator

By an anonymous fax was the owner of the William Creek Hotel, which is located 200 kilometers northwest of Marree, attention is drawn to the artwork. He ignored it at first because he thought it was a joke. Since the fax information contained metric system and other unusual names in the Imperial measurement system and not in the usual in Australia, was initially assumed that Americans are the creators. Since you still do not know for sure who created the Marree Man, there is to much speculation. So is either assumed that it is the work of Australian artists, a group of construction workers or members of the Australian military, or that Englishmen were copyright. Meanwhile, strengthens the view that it was the late in 2002, Australian artist Bardius Goldberg, who both artistically and technically - was able to produce the two-dimensional work - using GPS. He lived in his last 30 years in Alice Springs and had already designed smaller geoglyphs. In addition, he had received a large fine payment period in question, the giver he always concealed.

Only later pictures were found in a book Red Centre of the author Finlayson, the hunting of wallabies with a throwing stick or boomerang of a naked hunter of the Pitjantjatjara, a living there tribe of Aborigines, show and could have served as a template.

Naming

The geoglyph was named Marree Man after the town in the outback. When the police examined the place a bottle with the contents was found in there was also a paper on which was written Stuart 's Giant. The name refers to John McDouall Stuart, a well-known in Australia Scottish surveyor, who crossed the first European to the continent from south to north. However, this term for the work of art not prevailed.

Aboriginesprotest

The Dieri are a group of Australian aborigines, in their tribal area, the Marree Man located. They protested the Marree Man, as these geoglyph have done damage to their land and their Dreamtime ( Dreamtime ) yield.