Tuesday 6 September 2022 11:29 PM Mystery behind a 'giant Marree man' that was found in the Australian outback trends now
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With his nether region stretching for more than 400 metres, there is no doubting the Marree Man's manhood.
However, in proof that size does indeed matter, anyone who can explain how the 4.2km tall figure, also known as Stuart's Giant, came to be sketched into the red dust of central Australia stands to pocket the hefty amount of $5,000.
That's the sum put up by business entrepreneur Dick Smith in 2018 to find out who is behind the artwork that appears to show an Indigenous hunter throwing a boomerang or spear in remote South Australia, about 700km north of Adelaide.
No one knows how the 4.2km figure Marree Man was etched into the remote outback of central Australia or who did it
The figure, which has an outline measuring 28km in length and whose etchings are roughly 45 metres wide and 35cm deep into the desert, has been named after the nearest small settlement of Marree.
Such is the scale of Marree Man that it was only recognised as a single sketch by a man named Trec Smith, who was flying a small airplane overhead in 1998.
'It was huge and sculpted really deeply,' Mr Smith
