This pin marks the Big Thing itself. If stopping, choose a safe and legal place nearby.
Site-level location · 35.9211° S, 145.6443° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
A large rosella in Federation Park at Cobram, on the Murray at the Victorian border.
A June 2025 licensed photograph confirms it remains in the park, and Moira Shire confirms Federation Park is an active public recreation area – which for a border town on a major touring route is the relevant detail.
The bird is a good local choice. Crimson and eastern rosellas are both common through the Murray corridor, and the red-and-blue crimson rosella in particular is among the most vividly coloured birds anyone in south-eastern Australia will see in an ordinary day. Enlarging one is essentially a licence to use pure saturated colour, which almost no other Australian animal permits.
Cobram sits opposite Barooga across the river, in irrigated dairy and orchard country, and the Murray beaches here are a substantial summer destination. Federation Park is the town's civic green space.
The name is worth a note. Rosella is thought to derive from Rose Hill, the early settlement at Parramatta where the birds were first described by colonists – Rosehiller becoming rosella over time. It is one of very few Australian bird names with that kind of place-derived origin.
Nothing found establishes a date, the person responsible and the height.
Photograph
This is a photograph, shown separately from the illustration artwork.
A June 2025 licensed photograph confirms the Big Rosella remains in Federation Park, while Moira Shire confirms the park is an active public recreation area with ample car and caravan parking.
ACCESS
Navigate to Federation Park at Punt Road / Murray Valley Highway, Cobram. Current imagery confirms the Big Rosella remains in the park, and Moira Shire identifies public/long-vehicle parking on Punt Road and behind Federation Park. Use lawful park-area parking on arrival; the stored site point is not asserted to be a parking centroid.
