Big Galah

The Big Galah is an 8-metre-tall fibreglass sculpture located on the Lincoln Highway at the entrance to Kimba on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. Erected in 1993, it is one of Australia's well-known 'Big Things' and serves as a roadside landmark for the town, which markets itself as halfway across Australia. The sculpture depicts a galah, a pink and grey cockatoo common in the district, and is a popular photo stop for travellers.

Visitors can expect an outdoor roadside sculpture of a pink and grey galah standing approximately 8 metres high beside the Lincoln Highway at the northern entrance to Kimba. The site is open and flat with parking adjacent to the sculpture, opposite the Halfway Across Australia monument and near visitor information. There is no enclosed building; visitors view and photograph the sculpture from ground level and can explore the immediate surrounds and interpretive signage.

Erected in 1993 as a tourism landmark for Kimba, the sculpture was constructed from fibreglass and steel to promote the town to travellers on the Eyre Peninsula. It forms part of Australia's tradition of large novelty architecture known as 'Big Things' developed from the 1960s onwards to attract road travellers.

The sculpture celebrates the galah, a pink and grey cockatoo common in the Kimba district, and reinforces Kimba's community identity and marketing as the geographic centre of Australia and halfway point between the east and west coasts. It is a well-known roadside cultural landmark on the Eyre Peninsula.