After further sightings were claimed, the story was reported around the world, and journalists descended upon the town of Eucla which had a population of 8 people at the time.
Scott admitted to Murray Nicoll of The News that the hoax was created by a publicist Geoff Pearce, of Melbourne,[2] who happened to be in the Eucla Hotel and had contacts within the media.
Her main sculpture After the Nullarbor Nymph, which was cast into bronze, was exhibited in front of the South Australian Museum[6] for three months, was selected in the 2004 Sculpture by the Sea[7] exhibition in Sydney, and is now on display in front of the Flinders Medical Centre[8] in Adelaide.
[10] In 2012 a low-budget movie titled The Nullarbor Nymph was produced out of Ceduna, South Australia and written and directed by Mathew J. Wilkinson.
A Sydney premiere was held on 22 May 2012 and the film received positive reviews given its $25,000 budget.