PORTLAND is now home to one of the world’s largest puzzles after a Glenelg shire resident completed the project earlier this month.

Portland Secondary College principal Jo Kindred started the 51,300-piece puzzle at the beginning of the COVID pandemic which features the 27 wonders of the world including the recognisable Great Barrier Reef, Chichen Itza and Taj Mahal.

Ms Kindred said the puzzle was 9.69m by 1.9m and the price was $800 USD, including the price of having it freighted.

“I'm going to pull it apart completely and then sell it to someone else,” she said.

She plans to put together another puzzle in the future picturing an African waterhole which she said would be much smaller but still quite expensive.

Ms Kindred said she was quite protective of the large puzzle as she was piecing it together and did not allow even her family to touch it.

“Though my daughter did come and help me connect it the other day,” she said.

“I made her crawl around on the tables to do the middle bits because her mother's too old to crawl around on her hands and knees and connect the middle pieces.”

A new member of her family did get a hold of seven of the puzzle pieces however.

“The worst part was when I was doing the last scene which happened to be New York,” she said.

“I just got a new puppy and the puppy ate seven pieces.

“However you can actually contact the company and with a very elaborate system you can tell them which piece you're missing and they actually sent me the seven missing pieces.”

The large jigsaw puzzle was displayed for a week within the school for students and teachers to look at.