Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was, as we all know, donated to America by the country of France and stands as a welcome to all returning Americans, visitors, and immigrants. She stands at just 151 feet tall and as everyone says looks really small in real life.
There’s smaller scale copies of Ms. Liberty all over the place including France’s very own copy which stands facing West to her larger sister.
The suburb of Mountain Brook, Alabama has a 1/5 size Statue of Liberty, whose flame is actually lit with Alabama natural gas.
And there’s a copy of everything in Las Vegas, so of course they’ve got a 1/2 size Liberty Statue outside the New York, New York Casino.
More replicas, and a long list of movie appearances on Wikipedia.
If you haven’t tried it, Deus Ex is really an amazing (if dated) game. This demo lets you explore & fight your way through Liberty Island.
Compare the game map to the satellite imagery!
http://www.eidosinteractive.com/games/info.html?gmid=50
As it was France that gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States, I think that the Statue in Paris is considered the original. The one in the US is the “copy”.
You forgot Placemark: the one in Tokyo Bay / Google Earth! (Flickr cluster here)
There’s a very very small one in Orlando.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The statue was offered by French private donators for the centenary of American independance (1886). Made by sculptor Bartholdi with assistance from Gustave Eiffel ( famous later for his tower in Paris ) for the metallic structure. At least 7 smaller replicas are in French towns. The one in Paris was the “prototype” used for raising funds.
There is an even smaller one in Vegas as well.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
You know I’ve only just noticed the Google isn’t stamped over all the maps anymore. How long has it been like this?
Rob: There certainly don’t seem to be as many of them, but they’re definitely still there. Perhaps some of the newer imagery just doesn’t have so many?
“Statue of Liberty” and you the postage kind of mark says “Alabama”. Come on!
Thanks for pointing that out “foo”. The stamps are generated automatically from the post’s country or state and Alabama is, alphabetically, the first state of this post. So that’s why it said Alabama, but I’ve now fixed it to say New York.
I’m just coming back from a week end in Firenze ( Italy ), and in Santa Croce ( holy cross) church a ” statue of liberty ” dating from ca 1880 looks very much like the New York one, and maybe was an inspiration for bartholdi.