ECCENTRIC ORBIT

THE SOUTHERN CROSS MONUMENT

Is dedicated to Charles Kingford Smith ’s completion of the circumnavigation of the globe in 1930

from Portmarnock beach to NewYork, in the aeroplane:

The Southern Cross.  

The monument was designed by Remco Dfouw and Rachael Joynt , 

Two and a half metre high with a circumference from 2 metres, weighing eight tons

built from limestone.  The bronze needle points directly to the North Star.

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