Explorers' Monument (Western Australia)

Bust depicting Maitland Brown at the top of the Maitland Brown Memorial
The monument in the 1920s
Amid a stand of trees in 2007

The Maitland Brown Memorial, also known as Explorers' Monument, is a monument located in Esplanade Park in Fremantle, Western Australia.[1][2] Unveiled on 8 February 1913,[3] it is approximately 6 metres (20 ft) high, and consists of a head and shoulders statue of Maitland Brown sitting on granite pedestals on a granite base inset with five plaques, one depicting three explorers, Frederick Panter, James Harding and William Goldwyer.[4] Brown died on 8 July 1905, 7 years prior to the unveiling of the monument, and Panter, Harding and Goldwyer 48 years prior on 13 November 1864. The monument was commissioned by George Julius Brockman who is depicted by one of the five plaques, and the statue of Brown was sculpted by Pietro Porcelli.[5] Because the monument as originally erected is biased, such as by celebrating the colonists "as intrepid pioneers" in contrast to the Aboriginal people that "are condemned as treacherous natives",[2] an additional plaque was added on 9 April 1994 but leaving the original offensive and biased aspects in place.[6][7]

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