what's the latest with Marree Man?

I think he was ploughed in years ago ?

I heard that it was a "prank" by the US military personnel that worked at the Nurrangar spy base near Woomera, before they packed up, left and the base was closed.
It can be seen (faintly) in the Landsat7 mosaic image that comes with the 2005 premium edition of the 250K maps from NATMAP.

Hi Drogger

If your pc is under 2 yrs old and runs on xp you can d/load google earth and view it from there.
The Maree Man was/is very much still there when the satellite went over.
Google earth maybe no more than 12 mths old, going on recent housing developments in our area.

Hope this helps.

Cya
Tripp'n
:)

"More mystery. A fax was received via a hotel in Oxford, England in January 1999 advising of a plaque buried near the noble warrior's nose. Sure 'nuff it was there when the cavalry went to investigate. What does it all mean?"

read several months ago in SA Advertiser newspaper that it was fading...
but as someone says its still able to be seen from NASA Worldwind and Google earth....not sure is worldwind is later pics than google though

If you ask around regarding him in Marree, you will most likely draw a blank about who the creator is/was. But he is just north east of Hermit Hill. He can't be accessed from the Oodna Track.

I was camped recently in that region for 6 days; 4 blokes, two 4 x 4's, shade tent, all spread out - and my campsite area was mentioned as being about the same sze as Marree Man's knackers. We had called that spot Flat Tyre camp - I had two staked tyres in 100 metres - but we soon changed the name to Knacker Camp.

And yes, he's still there.

Anyway, didn't you know that he was created by national tourism/PR mobs, just prior to the Siderney Olympics? The idea was to draw attention to Oz. You'd have to say it worked!

Cheers