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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"Where's the ape statue?" It's a question museum staff at Gympie, two hours north of Brisbane, have been answering for decades. The rock, which has a head carved in the shape of an ape, sits in a ...