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A long-running Yowie statue in Yowie Park, part of Kilcoy’s tourism identity since the early 1980s.
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The Kilcoy Yowie
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26.94737° S, 152.56503° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
On 28 December 1979, two sixteen-year-olds saw something in the bush outside Kilcoy that they could not explain, and a town of two thousand people has been living off it ever since.
Within a year Kilcoy had its first Yowie statue, hoisted onto a plinth in the centre of town as a warning or a lure depending on your temperament, and Yowie branding was appearing on everything from spoons to T-shirts. One of the men who helped commission it was the chairman of the local council, whose son was among those closest to the events of 1979 – which gives some sense of how completely the sighting was absorbed into civic life.
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PRACTICAL
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Use Yowie Park/Visitor Information Centre parking and walk to the statue.
ACCESS
Public park attraction. The current fibreglass replacement has been repaired after a 2022 theft incident and is back on its plinth.
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