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A three-metre emu sculpture made from wrecked vehicle parts as part of Nannup’s road-safety messaging.
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The Giant Emu
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Site-level location · 33.9929° S, 115.7774° E
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The emu at Nannup is made from wrecked cars, and that is the message.
The three-metre sculpture, weighing around 650 kilograms, was assembled from vehicle parts recovered from crashes as part of the Shire of Nannup's road-safety messaging. Building a large animal out of the wreckage of collisions is about as direct a piece of communication as public art gets, and it works on a road where the actual hazard is exactly this: a large bird stepping out of the bush in front of a car.
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The Shire of Nannup confirms the 3 m, approximately 650 kg emu was permanently installed at the main Tank 7 MTB trailhead. Current trail mapping confirms public Tank 7 access and warns against private-property approaches.
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Use the public Tank 7 Mountain Bike Park trailhead/parking system and follow current trail signage. Do not use private access from the top of Brockman Highway.
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