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Australian National Botanic Gardens

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53% trees around it and 1,437 species recorded.

69Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km53%
  • wild within 10 km77%
  • species recorded1,437
  • Altitude592 m

The forest around

53% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 62%Grassland 5%Water 9%Bare ground 1%Built-up 22%Trees 51%Grassland 14%Water 16%Bare ground 0%Built-up 19%Trees 44%Grassland 30%Water 3%Built-up 23%Trees 29%Grassland 46%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 23%53%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km62%
  • 1–3 km51%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km29%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees51%
  • Grassland14%
  • Water16%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up19%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

1,437 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Glycine clandestina
Glycine clandestinaGlycine clandestina164 recordsJohn Tann from Sydney, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Grevillea alpina
Grevillea alpinaGrevillea alpina120 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Glycine
GlycineGlycine tabacina114 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Daviesia mimosoides
Daviesia mimosoidesDaviesia mimosoides109 recordsDonald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY 2.0
Nodding blue lily
Nodding blue lilyStypandra glauca103 recordsCygnis insignis · Public domain
Dillwynia phylicoides
Dillwynia phylicoidesDillwynia phylicoides101 recordsMathew Frawley · CC BY 3.0 au
Coral-pea
Coral-peaHardenbergia violacea100 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Acacia buxifolia
Acacia buxifoliaAcacia buxifolia95 recordsDonald Hobern from Canberra, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Pomaderris intermedia
Pomaderris intermediaPomaderris intermedia89 recordsCasliber · CC BY-SA 4.0
Glycine
GlycineGlycine tomentella86 recordsMark Marathon · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eucalyptus racemosa
Eucalyptus racemosaEucalyptus racemosa83 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Snow grass
Snow grassPoa sieberiana78 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

69out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 53%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 77%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,437Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 592 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan28°13°58 mm
  2. Feb26°12°92 mm
  3. Mar23°10°68 mm
  4. Apr18°7°41 mm
  5. May14°4°31 mm
  6. Jun10°2°65 mm
  7. Jul10°1°46 mm
  8. Aug11°1°53 mm
  9. Sep15°3°47 mm
  10. Oct19°6°59 mm
  11. Nov23°9°75 mm
  12. Dec25°11°71 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Botanical garden in Canberra, Australia

Australian National Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in Australia, 592 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 53% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 77% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,437 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 177 fungi, 226 birds and 34 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Glycine clandestina, Grevillea alpina and Glycine.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Crimson Rosella Botanic Gardens
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Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Australian National Botanic Gardens seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 19marked trails within 5 kmRG Menzies Walk, Pilgrim Walk, alternate Centenary trail and 16 more
  • 47named and notable trees within 6 kmLone Pine, The Corroboree Tree and 45 more
  • 334picnic sites within 4 kmAlexandrina Drive - Pedestrian Parklands, Black Mountain Peninsula District Park and 332 more
  • 256shelters and huts within 6 kmSybil Howy Irving and 255 more
  • 42viewpoints within 5 kmDairy Farmers Hill, Government House Lookout, Black Mountain Lookout and 39 more
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmVisitor's Centre, Canberra and Region Visitors Centre
  • 470car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmAlivio Tourist Park, Yarralumla BNT campsite, Exhibition Park Camground and 3 more
  • 71places to stay within 10 kmUniversity House, Liversidge Court Apartments, Peppers Gallery Hotel and 68 more
  • 221restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Australian National Botanic Gardens.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas94 mountains within 25 km
Black Mountain812 m · 1.2 kmMount Ainslie842 m · 4.6 kmMount Pleasant663 m · 5.0 kmMount Majura888 m · 7.9 kmMount Stromlo770 m · 9.7 kmMount Rogers (Australian Capital Territory)704 m · 10 kmMount Taylor856 m · 11 kmGibraltar Peak (Canberra)1,038 m · 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Lake Burley Griffin5.6 km² · 4.4 kmLake Ginninderra0.9 km² · 6.3 kmLake Tuggeranong0.6 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount Stromlo ObservatoryBortle 5 · 10 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Molonglo River80 kmSullivans Creek

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Australian National Botanic Gardens rainforest mist walk 01
Adigautam5 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Australian National Botanic Gardens rainforest mist
Adigautam5 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Australian National Botanic Gardens

Australia

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 53%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,437Species

Belanglo State Forest

Australia · 132 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 559Species

See the guide

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Australia · 249 km

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 1,213Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q509884) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species201,245 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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