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The Cut Bank Penguin is a statue in Cut Bank, Montana. At 27 feet (8.2 m) tall and five tons in weight, the statue is of a cartoon penguin wearing a red hat on an iceberg.
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Cut Bank Penguin
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The Cut Bank Penguin is a statue in Cut Bank, Montana. At 27 feet (8.2 m) tall and five tons in weight, the statue is of a cartoon penguin wearing a red hat on an iceberg.
Text on the iceberg reads, "Welcome to Cut Bank MT, Coldest Spot in the Nation." The statue was built in 1989 by Ron Gustafson, who got the idea for it after the wind chill in Cut Bank hit −64 °F (−53 °C). In an interview with American Road on why he built the statue, Ron Gustafson stated: When I was younger, the City of Cut Bank had garbage cans downtown that were shaped like penguins.
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