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Gorilla

The Gorilla sculpture by David Wynne stands beside the Lower Lake in , in in south-east London. Completed in 1961 and installed in 1962, the black marble sculpture depicts Guy the Gorilla, a western lowland gorilla brought from West Africa to London Zoo in 1947.
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  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork_type: statue
  • Description: sculpture by David Wynne in Crystal Palace Park, London, UK
  • Also known as: “Gorilla sculpture”, “Guy the Gorilla”, “Sculpture of Guy the Gorilla”, and “Statue of Guy the gorilla”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Penge West railway station and Crystal Palace railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Penge West is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located in , a district of the in south . It is 7 miles 15 chains down the line from , in Travelcard Zone 4. is situated 1,000 feet southeast of Gorilla.

Railway station
Photo: Svetlopisac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crystal Palace is an interchange station between the Windrush line of the London Overground and National Rail services operated by Southern, situated in the in south . is situated 1,600 feet west of Gorilla.

Sports venue
Photo: Svetlopisac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Sports Centre at in south London, England is a large sports centre and outdoor athletics stadium. It was opened in 1964 in , close to the site of the former Crystal Palace Exhibition building which had been destroyed by fire in 1936, and is on the same site as the former FA Cup Final venue which was used here between 1895 and 1914. is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Gorilla.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crystal Palace and Penge.

Suburb
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is an area in , named after the Exhibition building which stood in the area from 1854, until it was destroyed by a fire in 1936.

Suburb
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is a suburb of South East , , now in the , 3.5 miles west of , 3.7 miles north east of and 7.1 miles south east of .

Suburb
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is suburb of south east , England, within the . It is located 7 miles south south-east of , to the south of , west of , north of and east of .

Gorilla

Latitude
51.41875° or 51° 25′ 8″ north
Longitude
-0.06461° or 0° 3′ 53″ west
Inception
1961
Open location code
9C3XCW9P+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6760756912
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­statue
Wiki­data ID
Q24034741
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In Other Languages

From Egyptian Arabic to Japanese—“Gorilla” goes by many names.
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تمثال جوريلا”
  • Japanese: “ゴリラ”

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Notable Places Nearby

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