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A giant blue-tongued lizard sculpture in Gallipoli Park at Marysville.
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The Big Blue-Tongued Lizard
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Site-level location · 37.5097° S, 145.7492° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
A giant blue-tongued lizard in Gallipoli Park is a gentler subject than most of what has happened to Marysville.
The town was almost entirely destroyed on Black Saturday in February 2009, when bushfires killed thirty-four people here and left very little of the built town standing. What exists now has been substantially rebuilt, and Gallipoli Park is at the centre of that – a heavily used public recreation precinct with walking trails and visitor facilities in a town that had to reconstruct its public spaces from almost nothing.
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Current Big Things references place the sculpture in Gallipoli Park, and Murrindindi Shire confirms the park remains a heavily used public recreation precinct with walking trails, toilets and visitor facilities.
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Navigate to Gallipoli Park on Murchison Street, Marysville. Murrindindi Shire maps the park at the stored coordinate and current regional visitor information lists a carpark. Use normal park parking on arrival; this site point represents Gallipoli Park rather than a surveyed parking bay or exact sculpture centroid.
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