This mermaid statue is located in the Leopold Park in Oostende, Belgium. The park was created in the 1880s and is located at the site of a previous zoo and botanical garden. The park contains a number of rare trees and animals, and some unusual statues.   There is a swimming statue, there is the […]

There is a pleasant surprise for divers going down 60′ into Powell River near Saltery Bay in British Columbia. They find the Emerald Princess, a 9′ bronze mermaid statue.  Simon Morris created the 600-pound bronze sculpture and placed it in sixty feet of water in 1989. The locations is aptly named Mermaid Cove, and it is […]

On the island of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands there is a replica in half size of Copenhagen’s statue of The Little Mermaid. It was placed in the town of Charlotte Amalie, by the harbor. The statue sits near the pier where cruise ships dock, and close to a small shopping center. The reason […]

The City of Greenville in Michigan has a near-replica of Denmark’s Little Mermaid statue sitting on the banks of Flat River where the river winds through Greenville.  There are some noticeable similarities and differences between Greenville’s sculpture and the Danish sculpture. The pose and the legs/fins are very clearly inspired by the Danish statue. But […]

There is a half-size bronze replica of Edvard Eriksen’s sculpture of The Little Mermaid in the International Peace Gardens in Salt Lake City. These gardens contain contributions from twenty six countries. The International Peace Gardens was the third place to receive permission from the Danish King and the artist, Edvard Eriksen, to have a copy of […]