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A giant ammonite representation made from windmill parts in Hughenden.
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The Big Ammonite
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Site-level location · 20.8429° S, 144.2009° E
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The story
The Big Ammonite is made out of windmill parts, which is a genuinely inspired solution to a difficult sculptural problem.
An ammonite is a logarithmic spiral of chambered shell, and reproducing that curve at scale is hard. Windmill parts – the curved blades of a bore-water windmill head – already describe arcs, and assembling them into a spiral produces exactly the right form using components every property in the district has lying in a heap somewhere.
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The sculpture forms part of Hughenden’s public-art and prehistoric trail near the library and Flinders Discovery Centre.
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Navigate to the Flinders Shire Public Library / Discovery Park precinct on Gray Street and use lawful public parking.
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