In June 1998 a local airplane pilot flight over the remote South Australian desert discovered an enormous drawing of an Aboriginal homo hunting amongst a throwing stick made on the desert flooring , nigh lx km due west of the town of Marree. The figure is 4.2 km tall amongst a perimeter of 28 km , making it 1 of the unmarried largest geoglyph inward the world. The figure is together with thus huge it tin simply live on seen inward its simply from inward a higher house iii ,000 feet.
Unlike many geoglyphs institute approximately the earth which were created past times ancient civilizations , Marree Man is recent , carved into the landscape non to a greater extent than than xviii years ago. The figure was created past times scraping off vegetation together with soil , maybe past times a GPS-assisted bulldozer , which experts gauge must direct maintain taken betwixt iv together with 8 weeks to complete. It was created inward such secrecy that at that topographic point is non 1 witness who could attest to its creation. Thanks to its remoteness , nobody had heard or seen anything , nor anyone has assumed responsibleness for it. To this engagement , it remains 1 of the world's dandy unsolved modern mysteries.
