England has the Cerne Abbas giant and the Uffington White Horse, Peru has the Nazca Lines and now a Waikato school in New Zealand, rather unfortunately, has been captured with its own aerial art - six giant phallic symbols.

The prank at a Hamilton school has been caught by satellite and immortalised on an internet map potentially seen by millions around the world.

An aerial view of Fairfield College taken two years ago.

The satellite picture, taken in May 2009, shows six phallic shapes etched into the grass at Fairfield College, with two by the car park particularly gigantic.

The Fairfield phalluses would no doubt have eventually passed into the twilight of sniggering schoolboy folklore had they not been snapped from space and used to compile the Google map used by millions of web browsers daily.