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Northumberlandia (the "Lady of the North") is a huge land sculpture in the shape of a reclining female figure, which was completed in 2012, near Cramlington, Northumberland, northern England. Made of 1.5 million tonnes of earth, it is high and long, set in a public park. Its creators claim that it is the largest land sculpture in female form in the world.〔 It is intended to be a major tourist attraction with the developers hoping that it will attract an additional 200,000 visitors a year to Northumberland. It was officially opened by Princess Anne on 29 August 2012. A day-long Community Opening Event on 20 October 2012 marked the park becoming fully open to the public. It has been nicknamed "Slag Alice" by some. == Development == Designed by American landscape architect Charles Jencks, the sculpture was built on the Blagdon Estate, owned by Matt Ridley, a journalist, businessman and author of ''The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature''.〔 The £2.5 million cost was borne by the Blagdon Estate and the Banks Group, who carried out the construction work. The construction is part of the development of an adjacent open-cast coal mine at Shotton. For this project, it was decided to use part of the excavated material to make a land sculpture rather than return it all to the surface mine, as is normally done at the end of such operations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northumberlandia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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