'Gympie Ape' statue found in paddock baffles museum visitors 60 years on
The statue was found on the outskirts of Gympie in 1966 as a farmer ploughed his field and historians have been trying to work out the story of its past ever since.
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'Gympie Ape' statue found in paddock baffles museum visitors 60 years on
The rock, which has a head carved in the shape of an ape, sits in a small timber and glass cabinet in the museum's souvenirs gallery. But Gympie Gold Mining and Historical Museum secretary Ralph ...