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A 5.3-metre carrot-shaped rocket added to Ohakune’s Carrot Adventure Park.
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Carrot Rocket – Ohakune
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Site-level location · 39.4200° S, 175.4037° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
Ohakune already had the biggest vegetable in New Zealand. In 2023 it launched one.
The Carrot Rocket is 5.3 metres of carrot-shaped spacecraft, added to the town's Carrot Adventure Park and unveiled at a launch event documented by Ruapehu District Council. The pun is doing all the work and it is a good one: a carrot is already the right shape for a rocket, tapering to a point, and standing one on its nose converts a root vegetable into a launch vehicle with no modification to the silhouette at all.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
The carrot-shaped rocket was installed and launched in 2023, with Ruapehu District Council material documenting the launch event and contemporary reporting giving its height as 5.3 metres.
ACCESS
This giant vegetable is within Carrotland Adventure Park beside the Big Carrot. The stored object point is the established Big Carrot/Carrotland site anchor rather than a claimed exact centroid for this individual sculpture. Use the park’s separately map-checked visitor arrival at 4A Rangataua Road.
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