Something Adelaide will never have a shortage of. ;)

Queen Victoria, Victoria Square
http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2004-07-22/picture%20045_std.jpg

Col. William Light, Light's Vision
http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2004-07-03/picture%20030_std.jpg

Cnr King William Street and North Terrace
http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2004-08-23/picture%20027_std.jpg

Flinders, North Tce.
http://urbanmelbourne.com/adelaide/2004-08-23/picture%20022_std.jpg

Also plan to get the War Memorial, the one of King Edward on North Tce and a few others, but I'm waiting for a time when the sun isn't directly behind them.

What are the iconic ones of your city?

Not sure whether these are icons, but they're very prominently displayed outside the State Library of Victoria, Swanston St. Melbourne. Flinders, Burke & Wills, Weary Dunlop , Queen V., and Lord Gordon are just down the street.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/joan5507.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/spacer.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/george5508.jpg

Joan of Arc ... & St George slaying the Dragon

Some from Brisbane

Boer War memorial, ANZAC Square
http://www.lhd6.navy.mil/images/07-07-03/brisbane_june27/images/Horse%20Statue_jpg.jpg

Kokoda Track
http://www.lhd6.navy.mil/images/07-07-03/brisbane_june27/images/Statue_jpg.jpg

Korean War
http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat/2003/korea/images/qld.jpg

When I get back to my birthplace in Ballarat, I'll digitize that avenue of bronze PM's in the Botanic Gardens. (and also "Flight from Pompeii", in marble). Now how iconic is that? I know you're all hanging on the PM's ...

Promising thread here ... thanks AtD.

Some more from Melbourne: in Swanston Street, the Explorers: Burke & Wills, who departed from Melbourne but never made it back, & outside the Cathedral, Flinders, in his whaleboat, who first sighted the Victorian Coast (well west of Pt. Hicks)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/bw_0550.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/spacer600.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/flin_0554.jpg

Queen Victoria: in the gardens of the same name. At the base of her monument are four female figures, labelled "Born 1819", "Married 1840", "Reigned 1837-1901" and "Died 1901". As a child I was perturbed by the brazen display of naked breasts the Queen was flaunting in her younger years.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/qv_0575.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/spacer600.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/qv_0571.jpg

Weary Dunlop, of Changi Prison Fame, & Edward the 7th (and we all remember him, don't we?)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/dunlop_0581.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/spacer600.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ooompaloompa123/Melbourne/Statues/ed6_0576.jpg

Cheers Yardmaster.

The St. George statue is interesting. I wonder why they chose a myth. And I like the one of Queen Victoria.

The St. George statue is interesting. I wonder why they chose a myth.
It is outside the library... I guess it represents the fiction section!

not quite iconic, but brunswick st fitzroy, anyway:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/statue_brunswickstreetman_kanatchasakdiset.jpg

heh, yes not iconic either, but Ron Barrassi, footballer, outside the MCG. i did not get the base, too many people leaning against it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/drunkill/melbourne/MCG/ronbarrassi.jpg

Perth's Roos:D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/perthwaus/529222ad.jpg

Did they keep the statue of The King (ie Wally Lewis) when Lang Park (ie Suncorp Stadium)was developed? That is definately iconic :D

great collection
btw whats the largest/tallest statue in Oz??

Did they keep the statue of The King (ie Wally Lewis) when Lang Park (ie Suncorp Stadium)was developed? That is definately iconic :D

Yep.

great collection
btw whats the largest/tallest statue in Oz??

I dunno ... the big pineapple? the big cow? the big crayfish? or the big banana?

ive already thought of that but there not really statues. more like gimmicks.
i mean the type of statue built from stone or cement ect that is like a memorial or tribute to someone.

perths' roos
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid143/p40119b8f62582ee75b0d37f3f1d069e1/f6920be4.jpg

When I was in Melbourne I liked the statue of the a large bird in the city. I think it was near the football stadiam. Anybody have a photo? What does it represent?

roos are great
very aussie any one try to ride them

It is outside the library... I guess it represents the fiction section!
AtD You will have to get a pic of Sir Donald Bradman statue near entrance to Adelaide Cricket Ground.

Already have kota. From my site:

http://www.photoadelaide.com/gal/2004/09/27/5_std.jpg

so has anyone found out whats the tallest/largest statue in Australia is?

As a guess, the Burke & Wills Statue (not inc base) on the corner of Swanston & Collins Sts, Melbourne.

so has anyone found out whats the tallest/largest statue in Australia is?

The Australian-American Memorial in Canberra is 73m tall.

http://www.defence.gov.au/media/download/2004/Feb/160204a/IM-34_lo.jpg
www.defence.gov.au/.../ 2004/Feb/160204a.cfm

There is also an Australian-American Memorial in Brisbane which has a similar design but is smaller.

This statue isn't so much iconic as controversial. It's of Robert Towns, who financed the establishment of Townsville but is also thought to have been involved in blackbirding (ie the slave trade). It was only unveiled a couple of months ago and sits beside Victoria Bridge near the corner of Stokes & Ogden Sts in Townsville.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/100_3183S.jpg

has anyone seen this giant egg near Towns Place?

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/5955/imgp48412uk.jpg

The Australian-American Memorial in Canberra is 73m tall.

http://www.defence.gov.au/media/download/2004/Feb/160204a/IM-34_lo.jpg
www.defence.gov.au/.../ 2004/Feb/160204a.cfm

There is also an Australian-American Memorial in Brisbane which has a similar design but is smaller.
Its actually 78m to top of golden eagle.
erected in 1954 the 5m eagle weighs 1.5tonnes.
so statue is only 5m tall.maybe its "highest" statue

jeez, Ive found a really old thread to add too.

Heres some of Adelaide's statues I took a few months ago, and forgot all about posting them

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/2981343884_092ff71003_o.jpg

whoops, bad light
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2980488289_9b346ee062_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/2980488897_dd71a3b889_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3054/2980489157_0c01b08d5d_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2980489601_817e9d9779_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2981345124_24a83fbeb2_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3027/2980493149_2f222a4a3d_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/2981348712_0df511ec13_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2980493817_3632943c3b_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2980494165_e4d1e7fe21_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3241/2980494583_f138a5f0f0.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3067/2981350146_4e12e33fd6_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3252/2981353516_50e451aeba_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3166/2980498873_80d0a54a0b_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2980499235_f7da179c7c_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2980499891_11a1419d5d_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2980500253_4f637e70b8_o.jpg

When I was in Melbourne I liked the statue of the a large bird in the city. I think it was near the football stadiam. Anybody have a photo? What does it represent?

Think it's called The Eagle. I like it too.

You can kind of see it in this photo: Okay, or not... Lost it. Bummer :(

Here's a photo

http://melbourneinphotos.com/bunjil%203%201000px.jpg

Colonel William Light (Lights Vision) would have to be the most famous statue in Adelaide. William Light is the guy who planned Adelaide, and its one of my favourite statues in Adelaide.

BTW Nice work eastadl

Its actually 78m to top of golden eagle.
erected in 1954 the 5m eagle weighs 1.5tonnes.
so statue is only 5m tall.maybe its "highest" statue

Well, I think you have to include to the column, otherwise the stone plinths all those statues stand on wouldn't count either.

If we're going to talk stats then I think we also have to define what a sculpture is. For instance, the "largest" might be the Vietnam Memorial in Canberra which was designed by the famous Australian sculptor Ken Unsworth but which might be defined as architecture. Also, can we count "big things" like the Big Merino? They're pop culture kitsch, but still sculpture.

http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/commemoration/images/nla-an23818021.jpg

http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/690/93494/t/598428-The-big-Merino-0.jpg

What about 'Angel' at Birrarung Marr?
It's definitely a sculpture. Is it a statue??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Angel_by_Deborah_Halpern_01a.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3044/2996736416_cb5f87b51b_b.jpg

when i first saw this ones thread title i thought it said "ironic statutes". there's a few of them.