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A larger-than-life platypus sculpture at Broken River in Eungella National Park, created as a community-funded visitor landmark celebrating the area’s famous wild platypus population.
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The Big Platypus – Broken River
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Site-level location · 21.1686° S, 148.5053° E
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The story
The local community raised four thousand dollars, and Broken River got a platypus.
The sculpture was built in March 2021 at Eungella National Park in Central Queensland – described by Atlas Obscura as the best place in the world to spot a wild platypus, which is a claim that stands up. The viewing platforms on the Broken River are genuinely reliable at dawn and dusk in a way almost nowhere else is, and people travel internationally for it.
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Community-funded larger-than-life platypus sculpture installed at Broken River in 2021 as a visitor landmark celebrating Eungella’s wild platypus population. Current national Big Things coverage continues to list the sculpture at Broken River.
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Use the Broken River visitor area for access. Queensland Parks confirms conventional-vehicle access, parking, toilets, picnic facilities and the information centre; the site location represents the visitor precinct rather than a surveyed sculpture pin.
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