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Scotland’s Mermaid of The North

October 29, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Mermaid of the North

The Mermaid of the North sits on a rock near Balintore, Scotland. At high tide she is half submerged, and at low tide (up to 14′ lower than high tide) she is clearly dry on her rock.  The rock itself has been named ‘Clach Dubh’, meaning ‘black rock’ in Gaelic. Steve Hayward created the 10’ […]

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Mermaid Syrenka – Protector of Warsaw

October 22, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

The Syrenka Mermaid Statue in Warsaw Old Town Market Square.

The city of Warsaw in Poland has for five centuries had a protector – the mermaid Syrenka. The mermaid is found everywhere in Warsaw – on the Warsaw Coat of Arms, on official buildings and vehicles, and in at least 3 prominent locations as a sculpture of the mermaid with her sword and her shield. […]

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The Mermaids of Drøbak

October 15, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Drøbak Mermaid Sculpture

The Mermaids of Drøbak – near Oslo in Norway – were created in bronze in 1999 by Reidar Finsrud and were then installed on the pier at the town’s marina. One of the mermaids seems to be rinsing out her hair, while the other two seem engaged in a lively discussion. Factory owner Ingeborg Lane commissioned […]

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Havis Amanda mermaid statue

October 8, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Havis Amanda

You will find this sculpture from 1906, the Havis Amanda mermaid statue by Carl Wilhelm ‘Ville’ Vallgren, in Market Square in the southern part of Helsinki, Finland. The sculpture was named Merenneito (Mermaid) by the sculptor. He sculpted the bronze mermaid statue while living in Paris in 1906. A young Parisian named Marcelle Delquini was the model for […]

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Trafalgar Square Mermaids

October 1, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Trafalgar Square Mermaid fountains

The Trafalgar Square mermaids are part of two large fountains in Trafalgar Square in London. The fountains commemorate Admirals Jellycoe and Beatty, with fantastic sculptures of mermaids, tritons and dolphins. Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the sculptures for the fountains in 1935, and the sculptures were created by William McMillan and Sir Charles Wheeler by 1939, but not installed until 1948 due to World War […]

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Mermaid at Wookey Hole

September 24, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Wookey Hole Mermaid

You will find this mermaid at Wookey Hole near Wells, in the southwest of England. Wookey Hole is an actual hole in the ground – sort of in the shape you would expect if a meteor or large space ship crashed into the ground at a shallow angle. It is about 1000′ long and 200′ wide, and […]

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Mermaid Miranda of Dartmouth

September 17, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

Mermaid statue - Miranda, Mermaid of Dartmouth.

The mermaid Miranda of Dartmouth was inspired by the 1948 film “Miranda“, in which British actress Glynis Johns played the role of the mermaid Miranda. It is located on a private residence by the Dart Estuary, near Dartmouth Castle on the west bank of the River Dart. The life-size mermaid statue is known as Miranda, Mermaid of […]

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Carlsberg’s Little Mermaid

September 10, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

The Little Mermaid

If you visit Carlsberg Breweries in Copenhagen, you will encounter this half-size copy of Edvard Eriksen’s sculpture of The Little Mermaid. What is a mermaid doing at Carlsberg Breweries? She is there because the original world-famous statue of The Little Mermaid was commissioned in 1909 by Carlsberg’s owner Carl Jacobsen. A ballet based on the […]

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Denmark’s Little Mermaid

September 3, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

The Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen

I started writing about mermaid statues around the world about 10 years ago, creating pages and writing blogs about each of the sculptures I found. And yet somehow I never wrote a blog post specifically about the most famous of all the mermaid statues – the sculpture of The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark. Yet […]

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The Big Mermaid

August 27, 2022 By Mermaids of Earth Leave a Comment

The New Mermaid

The Big Mermaid was commissioned by Danish restaurateur Peter Bech and installed in 2006. Bech commissioned it from China, carved in granite. It was originally installed a few hundred feet from the famous statue of The Little Mermaid, but in 2018 it was moved to the city of Dragør, some 10 miles south. The sculpture […]

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Guanabara Mermaid

Guanabara Mitológica mermaid in Brazil

The Guanabara Mitológica sculpture is a very contemporary mermaid sculpture at the top of Pão de Açucar (Sugarloaf Mountain) in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay. She is part of the large installation at the top of this mountain, which has multiple levels of viewing platforms overlook Rio de Janeiro from about 1280′ elevation. Guanabara Mitológica was created […]

Mica Sirena mermaid sculpture

The Mica Sirena in Romania

The Mica Sirena (The Little Mermaid) in Piatra Neamt is a fairly close replica of the famous mermaid statue in Copenhagen, albeit with a different face.   The statue originally was placed in Piata Libertatii (Liberty Square) near a statue of Stefan cel Mare (Stephen The Great) in the center of Piatra Neamt, Moldavia, Romania. The plaque […]

Minsen Seewief (mermaid)

Minsen Seewief (mermaid)

Karin Mennen created the Minsen Seewief sculpture and monument in 1992, to preserve and commemorate a cautionary legend from the 16th century in northern Germany. According to legend a mermaid was trapped by fishermen.  She pleaded to be released, but they refused. Eventually she escaped, and then in revenge she destroyed the area – the […]

 

 

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