Marree

We have arrived at Marree. This will be the place we board a small aircraft and take a flight over Lake Eyre. This will be quite interesting since it has water.

The flight will also fly over the Marree Man. This is the largest geoglyph in the southern hemisphere and the second largest in the world. Nobody has claimed to have created it but there are many unconfirmed theories.

The graphic depicts an aboriginal man with a hunting stick and can be seen from space. It was about seven kilometres of lines in the red earth about 150cm in depth. It is speculated that the points marked with bamboo stakes must have used GPS.

Because of the accuracy it is thought that some military personell may have been involved.

Recently it had become less distinct. A plan was made to redo the outline at a cost of nearly a million. Eventually it was done using a grader at a fraction of the cost expected. The new outline was designed to collect rain water and should promote plants to grow along it. Marree man is a huge tourist draw card.En savoir plus