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A nine-metre-long hand-worked steel crocodile sculpture holding a barramundi at George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens.
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Steel Crocodile and Barramundi – George Brown Botanic Gardens
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Site-level location · 12.4448° S, 130.8371° E
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Nine metres of hand-worked steel crocodile, with a barramundi in its jaws, in the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens.
The pairing is the point. These are the two animals the Top End is defined by – the predator everyone is warned about and the fish everyone is chasing – and putting one in the mouth of the other collapses the whole relationship into a single image. It is also, bluntly, what happens. Crocodiles eat barramundi, and any angler who has had a fish taken off the line on the Daly or the Mary knows the sculpture is a documentary rather than a fantasy.
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Tourism NT documents the nine-metre steel crocodile in George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens. The NT Place Names Register supplies the current registered gardens coordinate.
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Enter via the Gardens Road entrance of George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens (near Eva's Cafe), which sits closer to the Steel Crocodile and Barramundi than the Geranium Street entrance on the opposite side of the gardens. Park in the on-site Gardens Road car park and walk in; exact car-park polygon still pending GIS-level confirmation.
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