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The Old Gum Tree

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4% trees around it and 304 species recorded.

30Forestyas Score

Notable treeBirds

  • trees within 3 km4%
  • wild within 10 km61%
  • species recorded304

The forest around

4% 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 7%Grassland 14%Water 5%Bare ground 1%Built-up 72%Trees 4%Grassland 20%Water 29%Bare ground 1%Built-up 45%Trees 5%Grassland 5%Water 40%Bare ground 1%Built-up 50%Trees 16%Grassland 8%Water 42%Bare ground 1%Built-up 34%4%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km7%
  • 1–3 km4%
  • 3–6 km5%
  • 6–10 km16%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees4%
  • Grassland20%
  • Water29%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Built-up45%

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

304 species recorded.

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

Frankenia pauciflora
Frankenia paucifloraFrankenia pauciflora14 recordsPeri Coleman · Public domain
Salicornia quinqueflora
Salicornia quinquefloraSalicornia quinqueflora14 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Red-eyed Wattle
Red-eyed WattleAcacia cyclops11 recordsSteve Hurst @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database · Public domain
Chenopodium candolleanum
Chenopodium candolleanumChenopodium candolleanum10 recordsMelburnian · CC BY 3.0
Sea Nymph
Sea NymphAmphibolis antarctica9 recordsLinnean Society of London · Public domain
African boxthorn
African boxthornLycium ferocissimum9 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Melaleuca halmaturorum
Melaleuca halmaturorumMelaleuca halmaturorum9 recordsGeoff Derrin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cenchrus setaceus
Cenchrus setaceusCenchrus setaceus9 recordsLazaregagnidze · CC BY-SA 4.0
Australian saltbush
Australian saltbushAtriplex semibaccata8 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Ripgut brome
Ripgut bromeBromus diandrus7 recordsGordon Leppig & Andrea J. Pickart · Public domain
Garden vetch
Garden vetchVicia sativa7 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sydney golden wattle
Sydney golden wattleAcacia longifolia7 recordsFritz Geller-Grimm · CC BY-SA 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

30out of 100

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

  • 4%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 61%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 304Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in May and from September to October.

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

  1. Jan30°16°15 mm
  2. Feb28°15°17 mm
  3. Mar26°14°25 mm
  4. Apr22°11°34 mm
  5. May18°9°53 mm
  6. Jun14°7°60 mm
  7. Jul14°6°60 mm
  8. Aug15°6°51 mm
  9. Sep18°8°47 mm
  10. Oct21°9°24 mm
  11. Nov25°12°22 mm
  12. Dec27°14°23 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

The Old Gum Tree.

Historic tree in Glenelg North, South Australia

The Old Gum Tree is a notable tree in Australia.

Seen from space, 4% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 61% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

304 species have been recorded around it: 173 plants, 1 fungi, 120 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Frankenia pauciflora, Salicornia quinqueflora and Red-eyed Wattle.

The best time to walk is in May and from September to October.

OldGumTreeGlenelg2
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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.

The Old Gum Tree 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

  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmThe Old Gum Tree, The bee tree
  • 19picnic sites within 4 km
  • 156shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmWestminster Junior Primary Reception
  • 668car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmAdelaide Shores Resort, BIG4 West Beach Parks, Marion Big 4 and 6 more
  • 298places to stay within 10 kmBay Hotel Motel, Lockleys Hotel, Marion Hotel and 295 more
  • 63restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 The Old Gum Tree.

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.

Peakyas45 mountains within 25 km
Tapleys Hill9.8 kmMontefiore Hill10 kmBrown Hill, Mitcham312 m · 11 kmUpper Sturt15 kmMount Bonython677 m · 16 kmMount Lofty727 m · 16 kmWitton Bluff20 kmWarrakilla Hill24 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Glenalg Beach1.4 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Happy Valley Reservoir1.4 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
The Heights ObservatoryBortle 8 · 23 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
First Falls15 km

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

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3108007) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species6,406 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, Cascadyas

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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