50 Most Interesting Wiki Articles
02/12/2009 07:07
SINC SAYS:
We’ve all used the online encyclopedia at one time or another, but have you read the 50 most interesting items? Here’s a look at the number 1 item:
The Marree Man, or Stuart's Giant, is a geoglyph discovered by air on 26 June 1998. It appears to depict an indigenous Australian man, most likely of the Pitjantjatjara tribe, hunting birds or wallabies with a throwing stick. It lies on a plateau at Finnis Springs 60 km west of the township of Marree in central South Australia. It is just outside of the 300,000 square kilometre Woomera Prohibited Area. The figure is 4.2 km tall with a circumference of 15–28 km. It is not the largest known geoglyph in the world (that record belongs to the "Readymix" logo, carved into the Nullarbor Plain (at S32°13’00.41″, E125°21′32.56&Prime
and is estimated to have taken
between four and eight weeks to create[citation
needed], but despite this its origins are a
mystery, with not a single witness to any part
of the expansive operation. The name "Stuart's
Giant" was given in an anonymous press release,
after John McDouall Stuart.
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