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Historic site in Queensland, Australia
Landsborough Tree
Landsborough Tree (before it was burned down)
LocationBurketown, Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates17°44′21″S 139°33′53″E / 17.7391°S 139.5648°E / -17.7391; 139.5648
Queensland Heritage Register
Official nameLandsborough Tree
Typestate heritage (landscape)
Designated21 August 1992
Reference no.600374
Significant period1862-2002
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Landsborough Tree is a heritage-listed tree at Burketown, Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 August 1992.

History

The Landsborough Tree marks the site by the Albert River where explorer William Landsborough established a depot camp while searching for the missing Burke and Wills expedition in 1862. He buried supplies near the eucalypt tree in case the explorers should come up upon it; he carved the word "Dig" into the tree.

The brig Firefly used in the search was abandoned nearby on the riverbank.

In December 2002, vandals set the tree alight, causing the trunk to fall over. In 2007, it was described as "nothing but a small charred stump", but by June 2009 there was a sapling "replanted" alongside the dead tree to replace it.

References

The "replanted" Landsborough Tree, 2009
  1. "Landsborough Tree (entry 600374)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Burketown: a Matilda byway". Travel Action Matilda Country Magazine. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Fury over burnt explorer's landmark". Sydney Morning Herald. 24 December 2002. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  4. Martin, Richard J (September 2013), "'Reading' the Leichhardt, Landsborough and Gregory explorer trees of northern Australia", Cultural Studies Review, 19 (2): 216–236, ISSN 1446-8123

Attribution

This Misplaced Pages article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).

External links

Media related to Landsborough Tree at Wikimedia Commons

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