April Fools! Should the road to nowhere get a big sea dragon?
A plan to install Australia’s next big thing on one of the NT’s failed major projects will divide opinion, but may not come to fruition.
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April Fools!
A plan to install Australia’s next ‘Big Thing’ on a remote Territory road to honour a major project that almost was is nothing but an NT News prank.
Read the fake news below.
Australia’s next ‘Big Thing’ on a remote Territory road to honour a major project that almost was.
The Giant Sea Dragon has been proposed to be built on Gunn Point Rd where the world’s largest prawn farm was hoped to be located.
Billed as the world’s largest aquaculture project, Project Sea Dragon was to be a land-based aquaculture development at Legune Station near the NT-WA border.
But it hit choppy waters earlier this year when the scheme was placed into administration.
Local designer Ariel Larkin said she had drawn up plans for large sea creature sculpture, and was crowd-funding to be able to afford to build it.
“Our region was looking forward to the investment so we thought we should probably do something to try and attract people anyway,” she said.
“And it’s already been dubbed the road to nowhere so we may as well make something there for people to see.”
Ms Larkin said she believed the statue could be installed by June 2025.
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