Talk:Marree Man

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Somebody provided this help at the voting page:
 * A couple of later newspaper articles are at http://100megsfree4.com/farshores/n02mar.htm and http://www.geocities.com/curiosities3/evidence.htm although obviously there must be more.

--Scott Davis Talk 12:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Nice, I've included some info from them in the article Astrokey44 05:04, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Plaque text?
If someone could find a more reliable source of the text of the plaque than it would be great.. Astrokey44 05:04, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

When was it discovered - June or July?
The sources I read so far mostly said that it was in June, such as which gives the date as being 26 June. But then this article said that it was discovered in mid-July, and the satellite photo taken on 28 June was taken before it had been discovered ???! Astrokey44 05:18, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Closeup image
A nice closeup image like this would be great I think. (This one is copyrighted though I think -- I took it from the source linked with the interviews in the article references and cropped it close). Lisa 15:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)


 * would a traced image on photoshop be worth doing? Astrokey44 22:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Good idea, so basically just a line drawing. I'll use that image I linked to for the tracing. It'll be nice to have it in the public domain! Lisa 00:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Former Australian Collaboration of the fortnight
This articles was ACOTF from 3 October 2005 to 16 October 2005
 * 11 contributors made 44 edits
 * The article increased from 0.9kb to 10.5 kb - over ten times longer
 * See how much it changed

Thankyou to all editors. --Scott Davis Talk 15:14, 16 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm glad to have done a little to help. --Sum0 22:16, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Removed section
" *Signs and miracles Life magazine’s cover, in July 1991, asked: “Do you believe in miracles?” and reported that thousands of unexplained miraculous phenomena are occurring worldwide. “I did a little digging,” said editor Peter Bonventre, “and it turned out there’d been a rash of sacred apparitions all over the world ... see Share International
 * "Very soon some of this information will become better known, and Maitreya of course is constantly in touch with the Hierarchy of other planets and uses them on occasions In Australia, for instance, there is a drawing which they call Marree Man, which is about three kilometres in length. It is carved into the land, a desert area north of Adelaide, and very wide marks on the ground draw out a very elegant figure with one hand holding a boomerang. The drawing is made by Maitreya and the actual figure is cut into the earth by the Space Brothers." Benjamin Creme, Editor of Share International. Please visit Note: Marree Man reference is in last paragraph. "

This section was removed by User:204.116.242.126 without explanation. I was going to revert, but it isnt really very relevant anyway -- Astrokey44 |talk 02:08, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with Astrokey44. Leave it out unless it can be severly copyedited for relevance. --Scott Davis Talk 04:54, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I didn't know it was there until now. This really isn't the place for speculation on religious phenomena. - Diceman 12:08, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Dimensions
Surely it is not 4.2 km 'high.' Shouldn't it read 4.2 km long or something?

Furthermore as it is not a circle perhaps it should have 15-28km of perimeter instead of circumference?

I changed it to perimeter, as I think that is pretty clear. The height could be looked at as the height of the man, so I think that is fine.Vettrock (talk) 11:15, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

I measured it in google map's measuring tool, and it gives height of picture only 2.6 kilometers, (strange, i checked few other places that gives reasonable numbers, so it have to be that) Might be possible that those whom first makes news about this character don't realize that Australia use metric system otherwise than it's former mother country UK which use imperial units, and somehow changed original 2.6 km to miles and then again count it wrongly given 4,2 kilometers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.238.164.37 (talk) 16:59, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

the figure's age
Is there a date at which the figure is known not to have existed? —Tamfang (talk) 17:28, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Theres no way this is real.
I just looked at the picture on the top and even I could immediately tell this was fake. I vote that this article is immediately removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.119.185.255 (talk) 20:19, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The picture is a reproduction. Check Google Earth to see the real thing.Wayne (talk) 07:56, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

It most certainly is not fake. You can still see it, though barely, on Google Earth. Locate Lake Eyre and then look for the Oodnadatta Track, which is clearly marked, to the south. The plateau is quite obvious and is between the road and the lake. The figure is no longer clear, but you can still see it. I went to Google Earth to find this, just one of those random things, and came here to get coordinates but found none and had to find it myself. I don't know how to put a pin on the location (and Google Earth says the information to do that is unavailable), nor do I know how to extract GPS coordinates. It would be helpful if someone more knowledgeable than I could do these things before the image is totally eroded away. 220.233.71.222 (talk) 17:44, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * The GPS coordinates are at the top of the page and the Google Earth coordinates are in External Links. Unfortunately the geoglyph is no longer visable on Google Earth. The Indigenous people who have control of the area didn't like it and wouldn't allow anyone to make it permanent. Wayne (talk) 18:20, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * It is still faintly visible today.  D o n a m a  (talk) 00:42, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Update: I have just displayed the location on Google Earth, double checking with the given co-ordinates at the top of this page, zooming in to the max and out again to show the whole of the crinkly-leaf-shaped smooth area of which it is shown in the middle in the photos of the whole thing, and today 12th December 2015 there is no sign of it at all. I am forced to conclude that, unless the Google Earth imagery being displayed today was taken by the satellite not just before 1998 but before this geoglyph was ever made (whenever that was), it has now been blown away by the desert winds. Iph (talk) 17:18, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Update: I have just added a story from The Guardian which has very good images of the figure as restored in 2016. So it is real. Wikiain (talk) 23:33, 20 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Still visible faintly in Google Earth image dated 17th October 2018Wolstan Dixie (talk) 09:58, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Edit on February 12 2014
Added the equivalent of miles to kilometers. Added an inner wiki link to "geoglyph". Added the equivalent of feet to meters. Added an inner wiki link to "amalgam".

TheInformativePanda (talk) 02:18, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

not thermal
Landsat image is mislabelled. A "Thermal image" would be black and white, at best this is a false colour composite including thermal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.52.246.245 (talk) 14:49, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

"description of Woomera is incorrect"
"a Woomera (a throwing stick once used to disperse small flocks of birds) ..."

No. A Woomera is a stick which used to amplify the effect of the throwers arm, thus giving added impetus to a spear.

eg the "throwing stick" itself is not thrown, and it isn't used to disperse flocks of birds.

"The only man-made items?"
The section labeled "Anonymous Press Releases" mentions miscellaneous small items found in a pit and says "These were the only man-made items found at the site when it was discovered."

Other than the four-kilometer long petroglyph, you mean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.190.21.154 (talk) 15:39, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Yup: changed to "only other human artefacts". Wikiain (talk) 04:22, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

According to the latest media stories thousands of bamboo garden stakes were found around the perimeter to mark it out for the original creators. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.170.19.247 (talk) 22:49, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Done - though the ABC reports 250 stakes. Wikiain (talk) 23:31, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

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have removed entire "Anonomous press releases" subsection from article as it is entirely unsourced and the article's present sources do not back up these details in any way, here are the words removed:

"Several anonymous press releases which appeared following the discovery led to the suggestion that the Marree Man was created by people from the United States. The releases said "your State of SA", "Queensland Barrier Reef" and mentioned Aborigines "from the local Indigenous Territories", terms not used by Australians. The press releases also mentioned the Great Serpent in Ohio, which is not well known outside the US. But it has been conjectured that these features of the press releases may have been red herrings, inserted to provide an illusion of American authorship.

When the site was discovered, several items were found in a small pit : what appeared to be a satellite photo of the figure, a jar containing a small flag of the US, and a note which referred to the Branch Davidians, a religious group infamous for being attacked in the Waco raid in 1993."

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 * this has now been sourced and reinstated, thanks to . Coolabahapple (talk) 23:39, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

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Dick Smith reward for information
I doubt this has much encyclopedic value so I've not added it to the article, but it's been |in the news recently that Dick_Smith_(entrepreneur) has offered A$5,000 to find out who made it. Kiore (talk) 02:01, 28 June 2018 (UTC)