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Carlton Gardens

Ashton 29 · CC BY-SA 4.0

18% trees around it and 780 species recorded.

45Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungiBirdsWildlifeWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km18%
  • wild within 10 km38%
  • species recorded780

The forest around

18% 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 16%Grassland 0%Bare ground 0%Built-up 83%Trees 19%Grassland 5%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Built-up 73%Trees 19%Grassland 7%Wetland 0%Water 7%Bare ground 1%Built-up 65%Trees 20%Grassland 6%Wetland 0%Water 14%Bare ground 0%Built-up 58%18%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km16%
  • 1–3 km19%
  • 3–6 km19%
  • 6–10 km20%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees19%
  • Grassland5%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up73%

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

780 species recorded.

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

Eucalyptus globoideaNT
Eucalyptus globoideaEucalyptus globoidea97 recordsMurray Fagg · CC BY 3.0 au
Eucalyptus dendromorpha
Eucalyptus dendromorphaEucalyptus dendromorpha89 recordsPoyt448 / Peter Woodard · Public domain
London Plane
London PlanePlatanus × hispanica61 recordsArbres d'ornement-2 - ornamental trees in colour - Public domain book illustration (visual · CC0
Hairpin banksia
Hairpin banksiaBanksia spinulosa44 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Casliber assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
Eucalyptus tindaliae
Eucalyptus tindaliaeEucalyptus tindaliae35 recordsPoyt448 · CC0
Eucalyptus willisii
Eucalyptus willisiiEucalyptus willisii32 recordsRussell Best · CC BY-SA 2.5 au
Blue-leaf stringybark
Blue-leaf stringybarkEucalyptus agglomerata28 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Eucalyptus cameronii
Eucalyptus cameroniiEucalyptus cameronii26 recordsGeoff Derrin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Brown barrel
Brown barrelEucalyptus fastigata24 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Eucalyptus paliformis
Eucalyptus paliformisEucalyptus paliformis23 recordsIan Brooker and David Kleinig · CC BY-SA 3.0 au
Plume-Albizia
Plume-AlbiziaParaserianthes lophantha18 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Australian cheesewood
Australian cheesewoodPittosporum undulatum18 recordsLouisa Anne Meredith · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

45out of 100

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

  • 18%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 38%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 780Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

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. Jan26°14°45 mm
  2. Feb25°15°49 mm
  3. Mar23°14°46 mm
  4. Apr20°11°61 mm
  5. May16°9°60 mm
  6. Jun13°7°64 mm
  7. Jul13°6°64 mm
  8. Aug13°6°70 mm
  9. Sep16°8°61 mm
  10. Oct18°9°61 mm
  11. Nov21°11°74 mm
  12. Dec23°13°60 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Carlton Gardens.

Garden in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Carlton Gardens is an arboretum in Australia.

Seen from space, 18% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 38% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

780 species have been recorded around it: 534 plants, 89 fungi, 142 birds and 15 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eucalyptus globoidea, Eucalyptus dendromorpha and London Plane.

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

Carlton Gardens, Melbourne
Ashton 29 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Carlton 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmBillibellary's Walk
  • 5named and notable trees within 6 kmCollege Oak, Federal Oak, Tulip Tree and 2 more
  • 234picnic sites within 4 km
  • 346shelters and huts within 6 kmStop 60: Stonnington Place, Clematis Pavilion, Fern Gully Rest House and 343 more
  • 38viewpoints within 5 kmGalatea Point Lookout, Wurundjeri Spur Lookout, Evan Walker Bridge Lookout and 35 more
  • 16visitor centres within 6 kmNational Trust of Australia (Victoria), Stop 1 - Student Advice - Level G, Fitzroy Gardens Visitor Centre and 13 more
  • 1,730car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmWicked Campervan Hire, Melbourne Big 4 Holiday Park, Discovery Parks Melbourne
  • 293places to stay within 10 kmDowntowner on Lygon, Lygon Lodge, Travel Inn Hotel and 290 more
  • 1,968restaurants 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 Carlton 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.

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Batman's Hill2.1 kmBonnet Rock12 kmMount Cooper14 kmDoncaster Hill120 m · 14 kmYorkies Rock17 kmGellibrand Hill19 kmRed Hill19 kmSummer Hill23 km
Coastya3 beaches within 10 km
South Melbourne beach5.1 kmSandridge Beach5.9 kmElwood Beach9.6 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Albert Park and Lake0.2 km² · 4.2 kmCherry Lake0.5 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Melbourne ObservatoryBortle 9 · 2.7 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
The Southern Star2.9 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Cheetham and Altona Important Bird Area308 species · 17 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Yarra Falls1.5 kmDights Falls2.9 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Yarra River242 km · 64 m³/sKororoit 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.

Melb CBN Carlton Gardens 3
orderinchaos · CC BY-SA 3.0
AUS Melbourne, Melbourne, Carlton Gardens 002
-wuppertaler · CC BY 4.0
AUS Melbourne, Melbourne, Carlton Gardens 001
-wuppertaler · CC BY 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q829338) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species49,558 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here