Our Aussie Big Things List
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Australia is well known for its big things scattered across the country. We often go out of our way to find them when we are out on the road. Here is a collection of over 60 “big things” that we have come across in our travels around Australia. There are so many, we could not restrict it to just our top 10 (our usual top list limit), though we have since made a page of our Top-10 Australian Big Things and Favourite World Big Things.
[updated in September 2021 with numerous WA, NT and SA big things]
The Big Boxing Crocodile, NT
The boxing crocodile welcomes you to the amusingly named town of Humpty Doo, located on the road to Kakadu from Darwin. It is telling the tourists don’t be scared of crocodiles, they just want to have fun.
The Big Carpet Snake
The Big Carpet Snake of Ayr is an impressive feature of Plantation Park, in Ayr. Queensland. We visited here in 2008, but we only just found this image of another big thing to add to our list. This 60-metre Giant Carpet Snake is called the Gubulla Munda. It is the totem of the local Jura people.
The Big Orange
The Big Orange is situated in Harvey, about an hour and a half south of Perth in Western Australia. The large orange is resting on a 10-metre tower, among the orchards of Harvey Fresh, at the Harvey River Estate. You can climb up to a viewing area inside the orange, with entry donations supporting the Telethon charity. Inside you will find lots of information and images about the history of Harvey.
The Big Wombat
We came across this not so well-known “big wombat” just off the Eyre Highway in Bookabie, worth the short detour along a dirt road. Turn south off the highway, through a gate with two small wombats, into the Scotdesco Aboriginal community. It’s located near their main admin buildings.
The Big Camera
Go through the lens of the big camera in Meckering in Western Australia and you enter an old camera museum.
The Big Potato
The Big Potato is located in Robertson, New South Wales, you’ll pass by it along the Illawarra Hwy as you pass through town. I’m glad they have labelled it as a big potato, as it is easy to confuse it with something else. The locals have a different name for it.
The Big Ram
This giant ram is in Wagin, Western Australia. Not to be confused with Goulburn’s Big Marino. Unfortunately, you cannot climb inside this one like its eastern state’s cousin.
The Big Trout
The Big Trout is a 10-metre-high fibreglass model of a trout found in Adaminaby, New South Wales. The statue is in honour of the popular fishing spot for trout.
The Big Dinosaur
This big dinosaur (maybe to scale?) was at Kronosaurus Korner, outside of a Museum in Richmond, Queensland.
The Big Trout
This big fish (we think it is a trout) is in Edenhope, Victoria.
The Big Dinosaur Ant
The Big Ant is located in Poochera, South Australia. Another worthwhile stop along the Nullabor for the big thing hunters! The ant statue is in honour of the dinosaur ants which were discovered at Poochera in 1977. Relative to the size of the actual insect, this big thing is very big.
The Big Oyster
The big oyster in Taree, NSW is unusually placed on the roof of a car dealership.
The Big Dog
At Corrigin, Western Australia. This large dog was built to commemorate the world record 1,527 ute convoy of 2003. Not sure what a dog has to do with it – they should have built a large ute.
The Big Crocodile
The big crocodile in Wyndham, in the north of WA.
The Big Banana
One of the most popular big things in Australia is the big banana in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
The Big Pineapple
Another popular big thing in Australia is the big pineapple near Nambour Queensland.
The Big Prawn
The big prawn is on top of a seafood shop in Ballina, New South Wales, Australia.
The Big Ned Kelly
This is a six-metre-high Big Ned Kelly, standing guard outside of the Glenrowan Post Office. There is another big Ned in front of the Ned Kelly Hotel in Maryborough, QLD.
The Big Cricket Bat
The Big Cricket Bat in Narrikup, Western Australia, is worth a stop for the cricket-loving and big thing loving families. There is also a fence made from cricket bats. There are 491 bats in total (yes, we counted them all).
The Big Numbat
This Big Numbat in Williams, Western Australia, is not as big as it looks. At just over one metre tall it is still much bigger than the real thing, the state animal of WA (no, it’s not the quokka)
The Big Marron
Found out the front of Old Kent River Wines and Marron, in the south-west of Western Australia, near Denmark.
The Big Boot
The Golden Gumboot, the world’s largest gumboot in Tully, Queensland.
The Big Barramundi
On top of a cafe in Daintree Village, Queensland.
The Big Seat
Great views when sitting on the large seat in Broken Hill, NSW.
The Big Orange
The big orange promoting Orange World in Wentworth, NSW.
The Big Bundy Bottle
At the home of Bundaberg Rum in Bundaberg, Queensland.
The Giant’s Chair
The Giant’s Chair is located at the Sky High Lookout, Dandenongs Victoria.
The Big Mango
The big mango in Bowen, Queensland is a great photo op in this region known for mangoes.
King Neptune, Two Rocks, WA
You don’t have to venture far from Perth to find something large and ancient. Only an hour north of the city in the coastal town of Two Rocks is this giant statue is basically all which remains of an abandoned theme park, though our Percy Jackson fans were disappointed it was Neptune, not Poseidon.
Big Apple, Donnybrook, WA
A couple of big apples in the streets of Donnybrook, south of Perth in Western Australia. There is a much bigger apple in Donnybrook, but it is now on private land and you have to stay at the farmstay to view it.
Wow, that’s a lot of big things, and we have seen all of these. However, there are many more to be found as you travel around Australia. They are sometimes hard to find, which is surprising as they are so big!
See our other Australian big things lists:
- The Big Things of Western Australia
- The Big Things of South Australia
- The Big Things of the Northern Territory
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