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Tree of Knowledge

Mark Marathon · CC BY-SA 3.0

32% trees around it and 168 species recorded.

56Forestyas Score

Notable treeWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km32%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded168
  • Altitude269 m

The forest around

32% 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 27%Grassland 41%Built-up 32%Trees 33%Grassland 64%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Built-up 1%Trees 41%Grassland 59%Trees 29%Grassland 71%32%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km27%
  • 1–3 km33%
  • 3–6 km41%
  • 6–10 km29%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees33%
  • Grassland64%
  • Water1%
  • Built-up1%

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

168 species recorded.

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

Vachellia nilotica
Vachellia niloticaVachellia nilotica8 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Slender snakecotton
Slender snakecottonFroelichia gracilis7 recordsLeslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org · CC BY 3.0
Golden crownbeard
Golden crownbeardVerbesina encelioides4 recordsCopyright by Curtis Clark, licensed as noted · CC BY-SA 2.5
Eucalyptus populneaVU
Eucalyptus populneaEucalyptus populnea3 recordsEthel Aardvark at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0
African daisy
African daisyArctotis stoechadifolia3 recordsWinfried Bruenken ( Amrum ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Red ash
Red ashAlphitonia excelsa2 recordsCasliber · Public domain
Gynandropsis gynandra
Gynandropsis gynandraGynandropsis gynandra2 recordsSosicles Ennius · CC BY-SA 4.0
Prostrate globe amaranth
Prostrate globe amaranthGomphrena celosioides2 recordsJos. Huegel (drawing), Moritz August Seubert (text) · Public domain
Swollen fingergrass
Swollen fingergrassChloris barbata2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Jerusalem thorn
Jerusalem thornParkinsonia aculeata2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Eremophila mitchellii
Eremophila mitchelliiEremophila mitchellii2 recordsMark Marathon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Smooth sow-thistle
Smooth sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus2 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

56out of 100

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

  • 32%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 168Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 269 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan37°23°79 mm
  2. Feb36°22°62 mm
  3. Mar34°21°34 mm
  4. Apr31°17°17 mm
  5. May27°12°12 mm
  6. Jun23°9°20 mm
  7. Jul23°8°9 mm
  8. Aug26°9°7 mm
  9. Sep31°14°18 mm
  10. Oct35°18°17 mm
  11. Nov37°21°43 mm
  12. Dec38°23°59 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tree of Knowledge.

Historic national heritage site in Barcaldine QLD

Tree of Knowledge is a notable tree in Australia, 269 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 32% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

168 species have been recorded around it: 16 plants, 0 fungi, 148 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Vachellia nilotica, Slender snakecotton and Golden crownbeard.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Tree of knowledge monument 1
Mark Marathon · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Barcaldine Showgrounds Caravan Parkcampsite · 0.5 km · 7 within 10 km
  • Railway Hotelplace to stay · 0.0 km · 9 within 10 km
  • Barcaldinenearest town · 0.4 km in a straight line
  • Barcaldine Airport (BCI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 2 km in a straight lineCar hire in LongreachDiscover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Tree of Knowledge 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

  • 7picnic sites within 4 kmLagoon and 6 more
  • 11shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmBarcaldine Visitor Information Centre
  • 20car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmBarcaldine Showgrounds Caravan Park, Barcaldine Showground Caravan Park, Homestead Caravan Park and 4 more
  • 9places to stay within 10 kmRailway Hotel, Union Hotel Motel, Starline Units Budget Motel and 6 more
  • 7restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Tree of knowledge 1
Camerong · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tree of knowledge 2
Mark Marathon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tree of Knowledge, Barcaldine, September 2020 1 (wider)
Joshua Ryan · CC0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7837599) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,096 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

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

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