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Gondwana Rainforests of Australia

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16% trees around it and 216 species recorded.

36Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km16%
  • wild within 10 km28%
  • species recorded216
  • Altitude187 m

The forest around

16% 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 14%Grassland 12%Cropland 74%Trees 16%Grassland 14%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 68%Trees 13%Grassland 13%Water 3%Bare ground 1%Cropland 70%Trees 8%Grassland 14%Water 2%Bare ground 2%Cropland 74%16%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km14%
  • 1–3 km16%
  • 3–6 km13%
  • 6–10 km8%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees16%
  • Grassland14%
  • Water2%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland68%

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

216 species recorded.

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

Eucalyptus coolabahNT
Eucalyptus coolabahEucalyptus coolabah17 recordsEthel Aardvark · CC BY 3.0
Chenopodium nutans
Chenopodium nutansChenopodium nutans11 recordsMelburnian · CC BY 3.0
Cooba
CoobaAcacia salicina9 recordsMark Marathon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alectryon oleifolius
Alectryon oleifoliusAlectryon oleifolius8 recordsMark Marathon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vachellia farnesiana
Vachellia farnesianaVachellia farnesiana7 recordsJudgefloro · Public domain
African boxthorn
African boxthornLycium ferocissimum7 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Annual bastard cabbage
Annual bastard cabbageRapistrum rugosum7 recordsMe · Public domain
Umbrella grass
Umbrella grassEnteropogon acicularis7 recordsMark Marathon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Toothed Medick
Toothed MedickMedicago polymorpha6 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Dalby myall
Dalby myallAcacia stenophylla6 recordsDon A.W. Carlson · CC BY 2.5
Tetragonia tetragonoides
Tetragonia tetragonoidesTetragonia tetragonoides6 recordsIxitixel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mouse barley
Mouse barleyHordeum murinum6 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

36out of 100

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

  • 16%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 28%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 216Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 187 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

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

  1. Jan36°22°71 mm
  2. Feb34°20°66 mm
  3. Mar32°18°56 mm
  4. Apr28°14°27 mm
  5. May22°9°24 mm
  6. Jun19°6°36 mm
  7. Jul18°4°27 mm
  8. Aug20°5°23 mm
  9. Sep25°9°31 mm
  10. Oct30°13°41 mm
  11. Nov33°17°62 mm
  12. Dec35°20°71 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.

Area of subtropical rainforest in Australia

Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is a forest in Australia.

Seen from space, 16% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 28% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

216 species have been recorded around it: 72 plants, 0 fungi, 144 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eucalyptus coolabah, Chenopodium nutans and Cooba.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

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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.

Gondwana Rainforests of Australia 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

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

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

    Other forests nearby.

    Gondwana Rainforests of Australia

    Australia

    • 36Forestyas Score
    • 16%Trees
    • 28%Wild
    • 216Species

    Pilliga forest

    Australia · 132 km

    • 83Forestyas Score
    • 89%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 266Species

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    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q643063) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species3,707 open records within 5 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

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

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